Daniela Romo
As Martha, great to see her doing more that soap operas, I really like this movie, kind of sad really, but that's History.
"You are not going mad, I can see them too, you are just as sane as I am..." Luna
Well its more of a telenovela than 'history', lol. But its great to see a movie set in the Mexican War. Hopefully one day someone will make a movie not just about the Patricios but also the Mexican Spy Company, a unit of Mexicanos who cooperated with the American Army as guides & counterinsurgents. Naturally at war's end they had to leave the country for their own safety. But wouldn't it be great to have a movie that addressed the topic of loyalty: to one's self, one's country, & one's people, in time of war, centered on the Irish in the US military & the Mexicans who felt compelled to aid the US?
share"who felt compelled to aid the US?"
well, as a mexican let me tell you thats not a movie im looking forward to watch. my guess is the did it only for personal gain. there was no moral justification whatsover for a mexican to aid the usamericans in that particular war.
Well as a Mexican-American, sorry amigo but its true: there were Mexicans aiding the invaders. Look up The Mexican Spy Company, a network of guerrilleros who worked with 'the nortes'.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/qid1_print.html
Heck, politically not all Mexicans were on the same side even though they were fighting 'the nortes'. Just look at the guerra civil that broke out as soon as the Yanks went home. One of these uprisings even involved the San Patricios. When that side was defeated, the San Patricios unit was disbanded.
What's more, while Mexico is being invaded, the Mayans of the Yucatan rose up against the Mexicans as well in The Caste War of 1847!
On the American side of things, in a shadow of the war we're in now, a Mexican insurgency rose up after Mexico City fell.
http://www.amazon.com/Wars-Within-War-Guerrillas-1846-1848/dp/08756530 22/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256060283&sr=1-1#noop
One of the reasons the US left Mexico so quick was because the military knew it didn't have the strength to combat the insurgents.
I know what you're saying, and I was wrong on my first post about personal gain being the only reasson. Still, as a Mexican that's the last movie I want to see lol. A cronic about the Mexican defense of the castle, the whole 'ninios heroes' BS (its most probably a fake story, but never the less interesting) could make a cool movie for both sides of the border, what do you think 'bout that?
shareI suspect that the topic of this one is also a movie Americans don't want to see, which is why it gets one star in the TV movie ratings.
Mexicans couldn't stop fighting among themselves long enough to care about being invaded; that's an unpopular topic for sure.