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trompe le monde said:
Ive seen it and see it and I honestly feel that the 2 brothersare trying to cash in on success of other Escobar stories, documentaries.
Football, drugs, what a great story, and whose really going to know the difference.
They twist a lot of facts in that documentary is the point. And most of the time it is clearly not honest mistakes but deliberate changes to history to add suspense or shock viewers.
For example to add suspense they say that Colombia vs Argentina when Colombia won 5-0 was effectively a straight knockout, with a draw/loss knocking out Colombia and a win knocking out Argentina. What were Argentina doing at the world cup then, with Maradonas famous camera face.
they also deliberately mix the 1990 and 94 world cups throughout in order to make it seem like it was all a buildup to the poor performance and Andres Escobars death. The buildup for US 94 for example has quotes from people saying that this was Colombias first world cup in 30 years or whatever. Actually that was said about the 1990 world cup where Colombia reached the last 16. Even though the story is about Colombian football from 1980-1994, the 1990 world cup, the second most event in this period is not mentioned once.
The whole Escobar vs football timeline is mixed up anyway. They say that Escobar was meeting the team just before the 94 world cup to wish them well in La Catedral when Escobar escaped La Catedral before the qualification campaign had even started. He died 7 months before the tournament began.
This is of the top of my head and I saw it 6 months ago.
The otherside of the film is better because they just stick to interviews and as long as you interview the right people, you cant go wrong because whatever the interviewees say will be relevant simply because of who they are. But in the end it was mainly a compilation of people praising their side of the story, and not challenging anyone else's.
Andres Escobar is portrayed by his family as the nicest guy in world, the only guy in the team who didnt want to visit Escobar. Cesar Gaviria spends the whole film portraying himself as someone who either didnt know or didnt have the power to do things about Escobar. The son of the Cali cartel even portrays his father as someone with morals vs the reckless Escobar. Escobars family ignore all his crimes and just argue he was a nice guy at home. Thanks for the info guys
All of these are deviations from the story and not challenged, because everyone is busy just stroking their own ego.
The only one with the balls to adress the issue is popye, who makes the film, and pretty much says " i was an evil mother****er who did everything wrong and deserve to be in prison"
When they introduce Escobar riding around on his motorcycle with the background music is also cool.
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Anyway sorry for that but to bring this back on topic Higuita actually did score a few goals I think, including dribling past a few players to score on one occasion, and dribbling past a few players to get tackled on many occasions, but the best goalie goal ever and possibly the greatest goal ever, is one i already mentioned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coO-OlTGW9s
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