One of the most touching relationships in the film is Griselda's relationship with Carolina, a woman who genuinely loves her. It is at that point in the film that the audience loses any empathy for a powerful woman, whose lapses in judgment led to cocaine addiction and gratuitous violence in order to maintain her foothold in the drug-running enterprise of Miami. One of the early victims is the father of the girlfriend of her teenage son. There is a turning point where La Madrina becomes vindictive and guilty of a hubris that eventually leads her to be responsible for 200 murders. But can she escape her metaphorical prison? Thus far, it is possible to empathize with this stalwart and indomitable character. She is depicted as creative in her skillful work in international drug running. In the first section of the film, it is impossible not to feel empathy for Griselda, who was brutally abused as a child in Colombia, then lived in an abusive relationship with her husband in New York. A central metaphor of the film is the "prison" in which La Madrina exists in perpetuity, much of which by her own choosing. She not only killed rivals and wayward lovers but also used murder as a means of cancelling debts she didn’t want to pay.This film biography of Griselda Blanco, one of the linchpins of the Medellín Cartel, features a towering performance by Catherine Zeta-Jones. “Initiation into the group was earned by killing someone and cutting off a body part as proof of the deed. She gathered around her a group of henchmen known as the Pistoleros. Bodies lined the streets of Miami as a result of her feuds.
In 2002 she suffered a heart attack in prison and was released two years later in 2004 to live in Medellin.įast-forward to 2012 and, having lived under the radar, she was assassinated when she was shot by a motorcyclist.ĭiscussing the former cartel leader, an officer for the DEA said: "Griselda loved killings. Despite the list of and intensity of her crimes, as well as the fact she pleaded guilty, she didn't serve her full sentence.
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