Narcos Movie Analysis

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Narcos
The Netflix original Television show announced their crime drama series called, Narcos in 2015. Created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro created a biographical drama series to display the life of histories dangerous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. The plot takes place in the country of Colombia. Season 1 and season 2 of the television series had a goal of centralizing the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, who became one of the richest people in the world by manufacturing cocaine and distributing around Colombia and to the United States of America. It said that Escobar was responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine distribution to the United States. Though all seemed well for Pablo Escobar becoming a billionaire,
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The Columbian police are able to track Pablo Escobar down, and without any sort of hesitation, Murphy is eager and grabs his weapon. The Colombian police and Murphy share one true objective and that is to obtain Escobar. Though the police were able to track Pablo, they’re single was misguided due to interactions with water, disturbing the singles. Steve Murphy and the police were so fixated on capturing Pablo Escobar that they didn’t take the mishaps with single into consideration. This proves that Murphy along with the police had a EGO mindset, because though they had logic, they did not take didn’t think of other possibilities that could of influence that single. Within the middle of the episode, one of the side characters within the series were able to officially track Escobar down, and with a little bit of concern, Steve Murphy questions the side character to see how confident it was Escobar, and with no hesitation the side character approves that it was indeed Pablo. This action proves that Murphy altered to have a superego mindset, to ensure that his time nor the every single policemen's time will not be wasted. Murphy and a few Colombian police pursuit to search for Escobar and raid the house he was currently in hiding. Once Murphy and his companions managed to capture Pablo, once he saw Escobar for the first time, he reflects on how …show more content…
It’s told from the perspective of Steve Murphy who is a DEA agent working against Pablo Escobar. Escobar has endure many different entities that opposes him and certain situations to stay alive, but unfortunately loses his life within season 2 of the series. The things that can be learned from this series is that many characters go through many different character changes, altering their mindset to following Freud's theory of the mind; ID,Ego,Superego. The mindset within the main character in the series always alters into an ID mindset to get their point across to other characters. Another thing that can be learned within the series is that when situations get too difficult for some certain characters to handle, they make irrational decisions and within their mindset will alter to become an ID, but that isn't always case because within the series some characters are able to handle the immense pressure that Escobar offers them and their mindset will change to Supergo. The characters that are opposing Escobar will use logic to ensure the people within Colombia's

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