Can El Camino be watched without the famous Western Breaking Bad, which puts the name of the series in its title? A question puzzles many series fans who find films about their favorite series, whether in the cinema or on television, as do «Netflix» here by showing the film exclusively on its platform.

Absolutely not. No movie can ever be made out of context, and the branch cannot be seen as a tree. El Camino completes the last episode of the series "Breaking Bad" (2007-2013), which launched the third golden age in the television industry that continues to this day.

We talk about one of the most beautiful and best series in the 21st century and in the history of television, as it ranks among the top 10, and the winner of the best drama award in two consecutive years 2013 and 2014, who won his last season the same twice, and won his last episode - which aired on September 29, 2013 - a better rating And the strongest final link of the century in a global agreement and not only American.

The series deals with the story of Walter White (Brian Cranston), a cancer chemistry teacher who saw the news of the raid on the headquarters of a drug gang and was impressed by the large number of confiscated funds. He decided to reconsider his job and use his chemistry experience to make drugs in cooperation with one of his students Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and little by little. He turned to legend Heisenberg, who dominated the drug market from New Mexico to parts of Mexico.

We return to El Camino, who adds two hours to the final episode of the TV masterpiece by Vince Gleegan, the writer and director of the film that completes where the episode ended, as Jesse Pinkman (Paul) escapes from the headquarters of the neo-Nazi gang after it was edited by the hero of the series, Walter White. Cranston during the last confrontation against the gang in a climax scene we have never seen even in action series.

The broken Jesse is driven by his kidnapping and torture by the gang El Camino, which he stole from his kidnapper Todd (Jesse Blemons). He goes to his closest friends, Matt Jones and Pitt, Charles Baker, who hand him the money left by Walter White.

Jesse seeks access to Ed Galbraith (Robert Forster, who died on the day of the film's screening on Netflix), who runs illegal operations to change the identities and concealment of criminals through his shop, an interface specializing in the sale of vacuum cleaners, and Jesse asks him to help him disappear, especially as he Required for the police.

The film presents retrospective scenes that support its context and answer some questions for the viewer who does not know the series, but it never sings about watching it. The scenes are new and are not in the series and deal with the relationship between Jesse and his kidnappers, especially Todd, and there is a painful scene about how the gang enslaved Jesse.

Gleegan repeats some of the characters who played important roles in the series, such as Mike (Jonathan Banks) located in the Better Call Saul series, which started in 2015 and deals with the character Sol Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) lawyer fraud drug gangs in the city of Albuquerque in the state New Mexico Theater Events Series. Jane (Christine Ritter) also brings Jesse's first girlfriend through retrospective scenes, and even Walter White appears in another retrospective of the film.

And don't forget Todd, an employee of an insecticide company that is turning into a front for Walter White's agenda. Todd seems to be a simple employee, but a fierce killer inside him does not hesitate to kill a mother and her child, as happens in the series, and then go to sleep the report of the eye without his eyelid. And the extension of Todd that racist gang that kidnapped Jesse.

The film bears some of the fingerprints of the series and differs from it in tone and speed and filming because of the different format, this is a two-hour film, a series of 62 episodes. El Camino is faster than the Bad Brecking because he doesn't take his time with the characters presented by the series and finished them.

But the film contains new scenes that reflect Gilligan's ability and ingenuity to complete a story that ended six years ago. If the film were released two years later, it might not be that good, but here we are talking about a cookbook that has matured in the last six years. Ghalegan chooses his shots very carefully and writes his dialogues wisely and considerably, as he did in the series, and not only does this, but paints action scenes well-executed. The film gives Jesse the character assistance in the series, which takes all his decisions into the abyss, and Walter White intervenes and saves him several times, and here we see something different, as Jesse thinks alone and completely independent of White and behaves for the first time on his own without any external interference. The film puts an end to Jesse's story commensurate with the end of White's story, each according to his latest decision. And in proportion to the name and standards of Brecking Pad, which has become a distinctive brand having a weight in the television industry.

The film is not made to watch alone and is not thrill, although there is a terrible confrontation scene with pistols in the style of the classic Western High Noon (1952), rather it could be called a post-traumatic character who escapes her captors and seeks a final refuge.

The Breaking Bad series on the consequences of the decisions of the characters, first of all White, a cancer patient who is expected to die two years later, exploits them for the drug industry, to provide financial security for his family. White and Pinkman's decision to make drugs took the series in a strange turn and gave him a beautiful and interesting story. In keeping with the theme of the series, his artistic and creative decisions have taken an unprecedented course from White and Pinkman's exit to the desert in the first episode to the bloody battle scene of the latter.

The structure of the series gave the viewer confidence that every decision associated with consequences would arouse his curiosity and interest, and this is part of the pleasure of watching the series and the obsession that he later made among the people. It was a scene of a game falling from the sky in a swimming pool that was not explained until months after the shot first appeared.

If 24 was known to have redefined the way shocks and disturbing endings were placed in the series, the Breaking Bad would be known as the flawless title.

We advise those who know the series to watch the last episode of it before the film, and we advise those who do not know him to watch it. Ghalegan retained the presentation or presentation of the final episode of the series and its detailed plan as a souvenir, and lent it in 2014 to the exhibition «New York Apex Art», to see visitors to the exhibition an important part of a classic masterpiece is one of the finest made on the small screen.

"We advise those who know the series to watch the last episode of it before the film, and we advise those who do not know him to watch it."

The film bears some of the hallmarks of the series and differs from it in tone, speed and filming.

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The series "Breaking Bad" established the beginning of the third golden age in the television industry.