Al empezar la película lo único que pensaba era “¿es de alguna forma posible adaptar esta obra maestra de la literatura mexicana?” Al terminarla, la respuesta fue la que esperaba, no.
Lo que eleva a Pedro Páramo como novela es su rica y hermosa escritura polisémica, su complejidad narrativa, sus simbolismos oníricos y su ambigüedad como plurivalencia explícita. Acá yace el gran problema: la adaptación deshace todo esto. Es sin dudarlo una simplificación -visualmente muy bien hecha, eso si- de…
One of the best 2024 films I saw (if not the best).
It’s brilliant how the director is able to create metaphors and analogies of such a complex context, intertwined in various factors within the socio-political conflicts of the protests and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement after the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini.
The brilliance is to see how the narrative, the script, the characters, their symbolic values, their roles within social dynamics, etc. are perfectly reflected with…
A brilliant idea, poorly executed.
Like many of the long list of films that attempt to awaken a certain degree of anarchism in the viewer in order to glorify an anti-hero with the iterative foundation that the world is a cruel, corrupt, and condemned place, where the little degree of hope towards positive human attributes is denoted in the protection of our "best friends", dogs.
As I see it, animals equally doomed to become instruments of vengeance against those who…
And today Argentina has a fascist president who mockingly questions everything that happened during the military dictatorships... lol
