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It seems that there is a logical contradiction in Mexican film studios, because it is inconceivable to them to perform a black comedy that features drama and at the same time reflects on the current state of our society. This is what the work of Joaquin del Paso, "Pan-American Machinery" achieves, a film that falls in absurd situations, but it is not an absurd movie, but rather a successful satire of the condition that we suffer most of we Mexicans suffer: our fixation with death. Throughout the plot the death of a character becomes unhappiness, motivation, pain, celebration, and finally, an ideology that governs an alienated society. I consider that this obsession for wanting to "honor" the dead, specially all the figures of great importance in our national history, has become banal, irreverent, since we are not able to recognize that as human beings, these heroes also had their faults, they also made mistakes, and yet the we continue to paint as almost divine beings. "Pan-American Machinery" manages to exhibit much in a short time. I think, as its title suggests, this film will become a referent of the cinema, not only for Mexico, but Latin American and America. All Pan- America.