Despite several "condechi" reviewers (people from Colonia Condesa, a fancy neighborhood in Mexico City who don't know anything about politics, but what their friends in the government tell them)have given this movie a low grade and said it does not reflect Mexican reality, that Mexico it's not that corrupted, rude when speaking and lazy when finding solutions to reduce poverty (which I agree, the reality is much worse than the one portrayed in the film) I think it's an acceptable movie to see.
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First of all, and what some people don't want to see is that it's a fable, the movie is a fable with a crude moral and black humor, slightly based in unknown, but important facts in Mexican politics, like the minister's being Porfirio Diaz's grandson and the president's "compadre" (Mexican title for he, who is one's child's godfather.
The photograph is not that good, the casting was not really accurate, having such big names in secondary roles like Ernesto Gomez Cruz or Jesus Ochoa and not really good actors playing main characters like Cecilia Suarez, Demian Alcazar has a good performance in this movie, not being his best.
Watch it, you'll have fun, but that's it. You'll have some laughs unless, of course, if you don't know absolutely anything about Mexico and its political culture. Then you might not want to see it or else you'll dislike it.
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First of all, and what some people don't want to see is that it's a fable, the movie is a fable with a crude moral and black humor, slightly based in unknown, but important facts in Mexican politics, like the minister's being Porfirio Diaz's grandson and the president's "compadre" (Mexican title for he, who is one's child's godfather.
The photograph is not that good, the casting was not really accurate, having such big names in secondary roles like Ernesto Gomez Cruz or Jesus Ochoa and not really good actors playing main characters like Cecilia Suarez, Demian Alcazar has a good performance in this movie, not being his best.
Watch it, you'll have fun, but that's it. You'll have some laughs unless, of course, if you don't know absolutely anything about Mexico and its political culture. Then you might not want to see it or else you'll dislike it.
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