Me estás matando Susana

This is not a comedy. It depicts a self involved, ego manic, domestic abuser.

• SPOILER FREE REVIEW –

"You're killing me Susana" is a movie directed by Roberto Sneider, starring Gael García and Verónica Echégui. I recently bought the Blu-Ray since (thank God) I didn't get a chance to watch it while it was on theaters. The movie is described as an epic journey for a Mexican man trying to recover his estranged wife, having to face cultural differences with the Americans and also his own life-long sexist ideas regarding women and relationships. This completely sold me, since, as a Mexican woman, I've been facing the latter subjects for my entire life.

I trusted Sneider- he directed and produced an earlier film called "Arráncame la vida" that tackles similar subjects, also based on a novel. Even though the movie doesn't really live up to its source material (the book with the same name by author Ángeles Mastretta) the movie is enjoyable and delivers its message properly. Actually, just go watch that instead. Don't even bother with this one. Or watch something else. Anything else.

This is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It just doesn't know what it is. The character arc is completely absent; it has an uneven tone; the laughs are cheap and spread too far between each other and, in the end, I think it makes women look really bad… when it was, allegedly, trying to do the opposite. It sort of glosses over the subjects which the movie promised to tackle in zero-effective way. The way this movie was marketed has nothing to do with the movie at all, and created expectations that, probably, ruined the whole experience for me (which is becoming a common problem with movies nowadays). Technically speaking, sound is terrible, editing is awful and the soundtrack is completely disposable. Gael Garcia's acting is really but not even he could save this wreckage.

This review is written as a reader from the original book Ciudades Desiertas by José Agustín, so if you did read the book, be prepared for being deluded. It would be unfair to expect that the adaptation of a great book will be great as well just as Fight Club, so I didn't expect that level from this movie at all. However, since I knew the title, I knew this was going to be a huge deception. I didn't understand why they change fundamental parts from the book. The main characters are totally out of context: him, is supposed to be an average Mexican, and even if I love Gael Garcia Bernal acting, he doesn't look as an average Mexican at all. Her wife, Susana, in this movie is for some –weird– reason Spanish, which totally changes as well the context of a Mexican feminist. Ciudades Desiertas speaks about Mexican and American identities and their contrasts and in this movie seems to be forgotten. Actually, the plot in this movie seems to be forgotten. You simply don't get it, even if you haven't read the book. As someone pointed before, this is a missed opportunity.

Weird cuck behavior. Some would say it was romantic but nothing romantic about cheating and sleeping with other people. It's suppose to be funny but it's kinda funny in a way that either they are self destructive people, leaving everything to be sadomasochism and secretly enjoying it. Maybe some part of hispanic culture reflects all that but it feels weird and irrational to understand love through the lenses of cuckness. The acting was good, the transitioning/direction felt unnatural because things move too fast and it's focused more on a fairy tale than relying on realistic expectations......

I can't find soundtrack! It's driving me crazy. Anyone know how I can get it?