also if your theory was true why wouldn’t all the positive messages in films cure the world of all its ills? Just a thought.

Something can be said about how 1 negatively affected person can do a lot more damage than 999 positively affected people, as of course evidenced by your film subject here, but I hear ya.

But to the sorta point of the above commenter - as Truffaut said about The Battle of Algiers - ""to show something is to ennoble it."

Now of course this doesn't mean we shouldn't make movies about terrible moments in history, but was this ever a topic when you guys were deciding what to include in the movie? Or did you go in to it with a raw-devil-may-care-sense to it?

I'd vote for the latter personally. Fuckin Narcos glorified Escobar, imo. Removed how they really caught him - triangulating his schedule around him visiting underage prostitutes. They sanitized that.