I lived in Mexico City for five years and had mixed feelings about Mexico before I watched this film. The filming location Pedregal is the area where I lived before, and the villa of the protagonist's family is also on Nube Street on the way to and from get off work, which I really miss. I have never had special expectations for Latin American movies, because of the common problems in the Spanish-speaking circle, the literary and artistic style like ROMA is okay, but they are not good at storytelling, but the result is still deeply shocked! What a great chess game!
Similar to most countries in Latin America, the gap between the rich and the poor in Mexico is extremely severe. The slums around Mexico City are extremely shocking. , Often go to the gym, social field, the bottom of the indigenous blood is more, no money and no time to exercise maintenance, short and fat. I remember living in pedregal at that time, and I hired a part-time worker to clean up every week. Every time my aunt came here, she had to travel through the extremely congested Mexico City (even in Beijing) to do housework for several families. She had to go out at 5 in the morning. People are sitting on a huge amount of wealth, and the classes are clearly divided, and the contradictions cannot be reconciled.
An important paradox in class contradictions is that in an unsafe country like Mexico, the rich need to protect their wealth, so the villa area can see high walls and power grids, and the rich go out in bulletproof cars and have bodyguards. escorts, and the neighborhoods they live in are also often patrolled by police. However, these bodyguards, servants, and low-level police are often poor people, and the tools that rich people use to protect themselves are actually poor people! So here comes the question. It's okay for a poor person to rebel, and a group of poor people may be fine. What if a large number of poor people rebel? This is one of them.
Let's talk about the military. According to the Mexican constitution, the military cannot participate in the management of the city. This part is entirely in charge of the municipal police, the federal police or the guardia civil. Unless there is a major riot, the military can only intervene in social affairs. Therefore, it is reasonable to guess that the riot at the beginning of the film is an important excuse for the army to intervene. After reading it, you will know who the biggest boss is. This is a big chess game of two ends. The poor and the rich take all. It is necessary to squeeze the rich and squeeze out oil and water, and also to oppress the poor, create a new order, and make the poor bear the cauldron of social unrest in the end. What the film reflects is worth pondering, and it is also a reflection of the social turmoil in Latin America. Everything is based on the division between the rich and the poor, driven by the movement at the bottom, the poor are incited to riot, the rich are attacked and wiped out, but in the end, the army is in charge of everything. To create a new order in which the poor and the rich are powerless and can only accept it. The vicious circle of Latin American countries seems to always follow such a logic, doesn't it?
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