What happens in ‘Que viva México’?
At first it is a story that faces a prosperous son, who lives in a wealthy area of the Mexican capital with his wife and two children, with the nightmare of returning to the wasteland where he was born and grew up with his family in a place called La Prosperidad in the state of Durango.
The mania of deep Mexico between a portrait of a present Catholic church, a family that manipulates the protagonist with emotional blackmail and the commonplace of a great inheritance left by a grandfather that everyone remembers as greedy and insensitive.
A movie, a churro against us, but for the consumption of conservatives
A comedy that dances between the classicism of life in the city and the town, going through survival hand in hand with the less legal ways of getting daily bread in a country like Mexico.
It is an ensemble film where the characters played by Alfonso Herrera, Damián Alcázar, Ana de la Reguera, Joaquín Cosío, Ana Martín and an outstanding Angelina Pelaez support a story that becomes unnecessarily long (3 hours and 11 minutes), sequences that They do not allow the story to close specific ideas or allow us to see Estrada’s critical sharpness against society, the economic system or the federal government.
If the production was led by Netflix, wasn’t it better to think of it as a miniseries? We will never know
Although in one of the well-known daily conferences the president, he was not at all satisfied with Estrada’s work. “A film, a churro against us, but for consumption by conservatives. The film is going to do very well. Yes, that, the same, good vibes filmmakers, right? Good vibes, right? But it’s for consumption of the conservatives and they are going to do well,” said President López Obrador.
Although he does make some brushstrokes against the government and the positions of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he remains very far from what we saw in Herod’s Law, Hell and The Perfect Dictatorship. For a long time he remains lame, he struggles not to fall and gets tired. If the production was led by Netflix, wasn’t it better to think of it as a miniseries? We will never know.