This movie should be commented in Spanish. Through the real anecdote of a journalist kidnapped by drug dealers, it allows us to know many details of the life in the Mexico of the cincuentas:la relationship among drug dealers and political, the ethics of the journalistic profession, the inherent machismo to a time in which the social differences were expressed by means of gratuitous aggressions.
When it finishes the night it is also a sample that Ciudad Juárez has more than half century of being a lawless earth.
If Emilio Gómez Muriel is not considered in the first division of the big talents of the Mexican cinema as they would be it Fernando of Sources, Ismael Rodríguez, Luis Buñuel or Luis Alcoriza, the certain thing is that his work is relating one of the best to know the evolution of the Mexican society, mainly in what refers to the middle classes and popular.
