Tuesday, September 11, 2012
THEN AND NOW
Today's film was the anthology of short Mexican films
I don't think anyone else has seen this but me. It is hardly reviewed.
It was assembled to commemorate the centenary of the Mexican Revolution.
As most such anthologies it is a mixed bag.
Shorts are weird in that they move by so quickly that everyone has a different take.
I "got" most of the abstractions and really appreciated the final work in which an everyday crowd in Los Angeles, latinos for the most part, are going about their business when a group of revolutionaries ride through, hard and dirty. This is executed in almost excruciatingly slow slow motion so every part of it works as you watch the oblivious 21st centurions pass through the file of horses.
It had to be enacted at very high speed because the manes and tails are flying. People seem to be about to be trampled but all pass through.
Its relevance to the revolution is direct but the conclusion up for grabs. Nevertheless, the cinematic aspect is so dramatic.
I liked most of it. A 3 out of Netflix5.
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