I guess the only question Mike McLusky asks himself is: What will happen to Kingstown if he isn’t around? Often called the Mayor (not the literal one), Mike is the Hermes of Kingstown. The one who acts as a link between two worlds. There are around seven prisons within a ten-mile radius of Kingstown, holding up more than 20,000 prisoners. The prisoners don’t trust the prison guards, and the gangsters don’t let the cops come anywhere near them. It’s a sensitive situation. Gang wars and prison riots can break out at any minute, burning the entire town into ashes, and therefore, Kingstown needs its Mayor, Mike McLusky, more than anyone else.
Long story short, it was Mike’s father who started the family business of incarceration. I know that sounds wrong, but that’s how Mike defines it. Mike’s father used to facilitate deals between the prisoners and police,...
Long story short, it was Mike’s father who started the family business of incarceration. I know that sounds wrong, but that’s how Mike defines it. Mike’s father used to facilitate deals between the prisoners and police,...
- 5/31/2024
- by Shikhar Agrawal
- DMT
This essay is an excerpt from Spectacle Every Day: Essays on Classical Mexican Cinema, 1940-1969 (Les éditions de l'Œil, 2023), edited by Jorge Javier Negrete Camacho and Alonso Diaz de la Vega, and published on the occasion of the Locarno Film Festival's retrospective, Spectacle Every Day — The Many Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema, curated in partnership with Mubi. Thanks to the authors, editors, publisher, and festival for permission to republish online.Spectacle Every Day—The Many Seasons of Mexican Popular Cinema is now showing on Mubi from August 2, 2023.For ApiLa mente y el crimen. © Archive of the Mexican Film Institute.It’s easy for any Mexican to get used to the way in which our country handles tragedies, misfortunes, accidents or any other scabrous aspects of everyday life. It would take just looking at the images from La Prensa—one of the widest nota roja newspapers (tabloids) in Mexico City, among...
- 8/9/2023
- MUBI
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