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The Complete Lack of Charm of the Mexican Bourgeoisie


And the peasantry seem no better in this hopelessly art school amateur
mess of a film ... In fact it looks like it is just some scenes that
were shoved in for god knows what reason to pad out the brief but
mediocre narrative ... No there is NOTHING clever going on here ... The
film reeks of arrogance and comes across as something that was made by
some awful rich kid with too much confidence and not nearly enough
talent To be honest it is a film you really have to see ( once ) just
to understand how money has completely destroyed art ... Bright glowing
BULLdemons... HIDEOUS spoiled brat children ... WTF British public
school rugby practice ( give me a break you brat ) Even such an obvious
brat director completely fails to mar the beauty of the country itself
though ... Mexico has such a rich cinema history and I bet there's many
ex directors screaming "GORD HELP US" in their graves after this silly
little thing came out DRIVEL ... With a capital D ( obviously )

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completely agreed .. i totally loved the first 17 minutes. literally. i have seen and enjoyed reygadas first 3 films... for this one, it will be awhile if i ever go back to this one. i jusy honestly dont see any reason i just did not see any significant meaning..

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Is a non-narrative film. Each episode depicts a very deeply philosophical issue, corrupt human nature and a physical or psicological fight, in the emvironment of mexican countryside.

I'm mexican myself and found this film really affecting. But very sincere and incredibly well directed. However, is not flawless.

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