La sombra del Caudillo

A very curious film because, based on the 1929 work of Martin Luís Gusmán, it denounces the dirty struggle for power within the revolutionary army and in the intricacies of supposedly democratic politics in Mexico in the 1920s.

With fictional characters, Gusmán and Bracho put their finger on the wound of the struggle for power, not just in Mexico but in general. Even in current representative democracies, the ruling generals are replaced by other caudillos, but the principles and ethics are the same, an indignant struggle for power and wealth, where everything goes and the ends always justify the means.

Mexican political power was so well portrayed in the film that banned it for 30 years, with it only being released, abroad, in 1990.

A picture that shows politics in its true grotesque face.