“I wish you a full life as a human being”, perhaps the most painful words one could hear when life has already proven to be a cruel, repetitive, indifferent experience, the thought of hopefulness at the face of loss and complete disappointment rather comes as an act of self-harm, yet it’s true that one must cling on to at least the illusion that it will get better, that there’s still much more waiting for us down the line, even if…
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America 1989
As much a beautiful travelogue of the highways and dive bars from the northeast to the deep south to the Mexican border illustrating the decadence of post-industrial rural America as it’s a comedy of cultural and aesthetic clashes, and it’s honestly impressive how the melancholy and alienation of the former accentuates the absurdity of the latter in a manner that enriches the text instead of being a disparate assembly of different tones and genres: in fact, that could very well…
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Güeros 2014
“¡Puto cine mexicano! Agarran unos pinches pordioseros y filman en blanco y negro y dicen que ya están haciendo cine de arte. Y los chingados directores, no conformes con la humillación de la Conquista, todavía van al Viejo Continente y le dicen a los críticos franceses que nuestro país no es más que un nido de marranos, rotos, diabéticos, agachados, ratoneros, fraudulentos, traicioneros, malacopa, putañeros, acomplejados y precoces.”
