& then there are Sicario(1&2) & The Wire, Omar & Alejandro who are largely viewed as legacy omens/ghosts in worlds that pushed drugs w/ the luckless crushed beneath their wake right
& then as the story unfolds it becomes obvious how incidental their own existence was, initially, to the story’s framework. They’re keystones in their own stories, but the events that created them could have, and often have, happened to anyone else.
Just turned out that they had the sort of grit/soul sacrificial drive in them to see things through to the ‘end’. & a lot of that fuel comes from the personal responsibility they take over these losses(rightfully so tbh, BUT the self-destructive patterns they cling to are the same ones they loathe other characters for… walking sinkholes)
Omar w/ Brandon, which set off the main roll-out of character deaths, his iconic whistle & rumors(Brandon wouldn’t have been taken in if he hadn’t been associated w/ Omar as a weakness/if he had worn a mask that night on the stick-up)
Mike w/ Matty, which led him down his own rabbit hole w/ Philly & a quick run due west lodging him w/ Gus & ‘cleaning up’ the entirety of the Salamanca family + his own men, repeating mistakes he made the first time around
Alejandro w/ his wife & daughter, drew in the Sonora’s attention as a prosecutor + reverberated that affect throughout the first + second film & dealt with that skewed moral compass/grey-field when he was forced to face reminders of his past
Idk why I’m bringing these all up. Men who claim posts as ghosts & more or less guard the very thing that took away what once meant the most to them, & then finding other people that remind them of the ones they lost + reminders that as much as they would like to suffer, time does in fact move forward and they can never avenge those few precious moments in memory. & perpetuating that cycle, reflective in the societies they traverse/their local communities, despite loathing it/‘working inside’. It’s about the self hatred & selfishness & a bunch of other things they refuse to look at. They’re like microcosms of their own environment + careers.
