I didn't get the moral compass in this movie...*SPOILERS*
So Cochran comes to Mexico, gets wined and dined, acts like an arrogant jerk, has sex with his wealthy drug-dealer friend's wife, and then later goes on a quest to kill his associates and find the girl, and we are supposed to feel sorry for him?
I get that they fell in love and all that, and I understand that the drug dealer wasn't a great guy, but I found it pretty hard to feel sorry for Cochran. Maybe the wife more since it was an arranged marriage and she was with a much older man (and they hint that the two of them fight a lot) stuck in a life she didn't want or choose, but Cochran was basically a bad friend and a jerk. What was the audience supposed to think? I mean clearly the way the drug dealer acted and the punishment was severe and was beyond the pale of a reasonable person, but he was a drug lord so we kind of expected that. None of the dealer's actions were justified because they were so extreme, but I also found it really hard to feel sorry for Cochran for what happened to him because he basically screwed over a friend. To me, even if a friend is shady, if he's good to me I'm not going be disloyal, and ESPECIALLY NOT by fooling around with the guy's wife.
Did anyone else find this a bit weird? I know this was adapted by a book so I can only imagine the book spelled things out better, but I just didn't get the moral compass in this one. Cochran wasn't an anti-hero but he wasn't a hero either, so I found it hard to relate to him and his plight.