Edgar Ramirez, known for his role in Olivier Assayas’s made-for-TV […]

Real-life Carlos, a Venezuelan citizen and a convert to Islam, has said: "From now on terrorism is going to be more or less a daily part of the landscape of your rotting democracies." Whatever shadows lingered in my mind about his life before seeing “Carlos” still exist tonight. To me, people like Carlos are first and foremost products of the era they were born in, with the particularity that people like Carlos had a utopic bent to boot and a family background that would naturally orient him towards political activism. And yet, none of this begins to explain why Carlos became Carlos.