La Gran Falacia is a unilaterally scathing agitprop documentary on Puerto Rico's "social decomposition," a film that should perhaps come with a warning label.
Its stated goal is to incite indignation, shock, and outrage at a government it calls fascistic. Director Paco Vazquez tries really, really hard to do this. So hard, in fact, that it's difficult to view his impassioned pleas without a bit of skepticism, even though the project clearly stems from a deep love of home and country.
Things are not well in Puerto Rico. A revolving cast of academically lauded talking heads illustrates a broken system that defunds public programs and causes massive unemployment, forcing nearly half the population into poverty and onto public assistance while the rest grow richer. ...
Its stated goal is to incite indignation, shock, and outrage at a government it calls fascistic. Director Paco Vazquez tries really, really hard to do this. So hard, in fact, that it's difficult to view his impassioned pleas without a bit of skepticism, even though the project clearly stems from a deep love of home and country.
Things are not well in Puerto Rico. A revolving cast of academically lauded talking heads illustrates a broken system that defunds public programs and causes massive unemployment, forcing nearly half the population into poverty and onto public assistance while the rest grow richer. ...
- 11/13/2013
- Village Voice
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