2019 Directed by Magdalena Zyzak, Zachary Cotler
A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the family’s outrageously decadent daughters and discovers that something quite unusual is happening at the ranch.
the only good thing abt this film was that my friend and I cracked jokes at it the entire runtime. this movie had a great concept, but really failed to execute it in a manner that wasn’t offensive and distasteful.
Class divide and sexy sociopathic siblings galore in a movie about a wealthy Mexican family building a wall to protect their mystical well water from the town's greedy gringos. All whilst a dude from Twilight is suffering from misplaced lust and allegiance in tending to the families woes.
Though its title makes it sound like some kind of timely political commentary, that doesn’t quite cover it. There are certainly echoes of the current climate in this story of a young white laborer who goes to work as the night watchman on the border estate of an aristocratic Mexican family, but it’s more a story of (often extreme) behavior. He quickly becomes obsessed with the family’s two gorgeous party-girl daughters, who are kind of like Kardashians with post-graduate degrees, and directors Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak crisply capture the way an attraction can take over your brain. It does, in stretches, get a bit too high on its own supply, but the lived-in performances (particularly Marisol Sacramento and Carmela Zumbado in the tricky roles of the sisters) really land this one.
Si piensan que ‘The Wall of Mexico’ tiene un título demasiado obvio y oportunista, debo confirmar que su alegoría es igualmente obvia y oportunista. La premisa es interesante, situándonos a lado de una familia mexicana adinerada con una gran propiedad y un pozo, cuya agua parece contener cualidades mágicas. Debido a que ciertos miembros de la comunidad se están robando este vital líquido ellos deciden poner un muro. Lo más extraño de la familia es el comportamiento de las hijas, cuyo vocabulario parece venir de libros de filosofía barata y análisis sociopolíticos. Definitivamente no actúan a su edad.
‘The Wall of Mexico’ intriga y luego desespera, hasta llegar a un clímax predecible y una escena final que funge como un mazo a la audiencia.
