Decoding the title...
Myself being a Mexican, am very proud of this movie. Although, the fact that many people here do not like it is understandable, sadly. While there isn't a myriad of mexican movies released a year, the ones that are, are without question shameful. Why good movies from this country are so ebbed away? We seem to have filmschools somewhere, i think... Anyway, while speaking to a Japanese foreign student, i brought the title of the movie in case and informed me that in the XIX century, people who were already in the elderly stages of their life(commonly women), were taken to the mountains so they could die there. Legend says, such thing was done by the eldest son in the family, who often was also in charge of killing him/her. The mountain where this act was held was called "Ubasute-yama", which translates in something along the lines of "where is thrown away old people".
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