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A film that deserves more than one helping to be truly appreciated comes from beyond our borders, in a motion picture that reigns above many films about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, comes The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista). Mexico's very first blockbuster epic is brought to life by film director Salvador Carrasco and his team of storytellers who centralize on bringing to life the controversial history of Mexico's people. This isn't a knock-off variable picture and in no way does it come to resemble Mel Gibson's falsely depicted post- gore epic, Apocalypto, but in fact, this film with such symbolic meaning combining the story of historic figures like Hernan Cortes, drives out the motion picture story of what was suppressed in the history of Mexico from the wipe of the Aztecs to how Spanish blood became infused within the Mexican peoples. Though watching this film as an ex-Catholic, I find it a great picture that details the forced Catholicism conversion happenings that occurred during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, yet flowing with the message of the people without creating hate for a religion. Beautifully photographed by Arturo de la Rosa, The Other Conquest combines symbolism, surrealism, metaphors and Christian imagery which haunts the mind of the viewer as something more than just the story of a people who diminished, but the fight to stay true to ones own belief's. The film isn't so much the conquest of a people, but the conquest of one man, Topilitzin, who bound to his beliefs and in the end died for his own sake of conquering a belief known to himself that he would not fall into conversion. Although set in a different century, The other conquest seeds a modern day message that cultural tolerance is never to be abandoned.
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