Nothing is clearly shown at all. I suppose you can create whatever image you choose based on the audio.
True. The director drops some suggestions (the sounds, the water bottle, the drain) and invites the audience to fill in the end of the scene with their own nightmares and fantasies. The entertaining images on this board involving pissing, mouth rape, anal rape, chair legs, night sticks, etc, are all springing from the audience's imagination - as the director intended.
In an interview, del Toro said he based his performance on the idea of a samurai assassin: cold-blooded, deliberately dispassionate, suppressing his anger, totally focussed on the target of his revenge: "In order to be a hitman, you can’t have feelings". And that's how he plays Alejandro. We see him get emotional only twice (as I recall), when he tells Kate that she reminds him of his murdered daughter.
Guillermo is not Alejandro's target, he's the means to an end. Alejandro has a limited time to get the information he needs from Guillermo in order to complete his mission (this point is stressed in the previous scene). So the question becomes: what's the most effective way for a cold-blooded assassin to extract information he needs from a prisoner? To go "all biblical" and rapey?
Ref:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/benicio-del-toro-talks-sicario-shooting-an-alternate-dinner-table-scene-and-much-more-20151005
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danaelambros
9 years ago
I agree with you; nothing is clearly shown, only implied. And what the eye cannot see, the mind will imagine all sorts of things. Personally, I think he water-boarded the prisoner. If that weren't the case, why did he haul in that bottle of water and place it smack in front of the prisoner? To me, the up close and in his face gesture, was one alpha male - or wolf - intimidating another wolf to show who's the boss.
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