But, eventually, Griselda even turns on Carolina, who was her greatest source of support.Ī major cinematic reference in the film is Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather, Part II." Griselda names her fourth son Michael after Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone. 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. This film biography of Griselda Blanco, one of the linchpins of the Medellín Cartel, features a towering performance by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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