Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
I know: weird.
Rapayet and his buddy, Moises, a.k.a.
Moncho (Jhon Narvaez), not only disdain communism but raise their beers in a toast to capitalism.
You might infer from the above that the Wayuu are initially innocent, noble in their pursuits.
I would not put it so definitively.
The old uncle, Anibal, and the old woman, Ursula, sustain the ghastly war that follows.
Despite the ethnographic trappings, much ofBirds of Passageis solidly mainstream.
One unruly nut is an acceptable catalyst for a movie like this, two seems like lazy-formula storytelling.
And while there Wayuu nonactors in small roles, Natalia Reyes looks like a future star.
Shes billed right behind Linda Hamilton in the comingTerminatormovie.
It has tons of texture.
To execute him is to explode history.
Its impractical on many levels.
You dont see someone shooting and someone else being shot in the same frame.
The messy corpses are discovered afterward, the camera surveying them mournfully.
In this scenario, revenge kills people long before anyone dies it kills their souls.
The movie is a knockout.
