In 2016 in Zarate, Buenos Aires a robbery ended in a violent murder. This was not a case notable for its gruesomeness however, but for its testing of the justice system.
In 2018, Alabama Media Group reporter Connor Sheets single-handedly revealed how a local sheriff had pocketed more than $2 million in state and federal funds earmarked for jail food.
The death squad members dressed in police and military uniforms entered their targets’ homes under the guise of executing fake search warrants and executed their victims on the spot or took them to other locations to be killed.
Films like Joker invite us to question the line between reality and fiction. Do such films reflect social conditions or do they, in the end, help create them?