¿Y tú cuánto cuestas?

Y Tú, cuánto cuestas? (So, what's your price?), it seems to be the constant over this excellent documentary work, performed by Olallo Rubio, a young Mexican director. The movie shows two faces of the same issue: the American influence in the Mexican culture. you will remain thinking after the movie ends. Everything has a price? Everybody has a price?, so, What's your price?. Strong and ancient differences between two distant-neighbor countries are discussed under each opinion. Both Mexican and American-common persons give its particular point of view about the other, but also about themselves. Developed with a extremely low budget, but with inventive and imagination, this movie shows many of the key aspects in the Mexican-American relationship. However, the movie is not just a compilation of statistics, the producers manage to make it fun too. That's one of it's good points. But never the only one. Well developed, absolutely recommendable.

You have to see it.

This multi-layered low budget film makes a lot of Mexicans feel uncomfortable, truth hurts and Mexico is not used to this kind of material. So, what's your price (title in English) is a complex documentary which uses the language of TV and modern electronic media against the Mexican institutional power structures. I saw this at school and as soon it was over the whole class was discussing the subjects that were included in the film: Oil reserves, Drugs, TV, Media manipulation, racism, etc. It left me thinking about myself and my country, and I had a lot of fun too! This documentary is actually funny! I loved it.

A complete piece of garbage. Please avoid at all costs.

This gives the Mexican cinema a bad name, a string of poor, random interviews, random statements based on no real sources, and a poor narrative outline this film.

At best an internet project, at its worst, a complete waste of time and money. This film tries too hard to be a Mexican counterpart to a Michael Moore film, but without the investigation or fact finding needed to defend its being.

Olallo was a great DJ, and has a very recognizable voice, but his film work needs to develop before pitching another project. A clear example of the old phrase "Its not what you know, but who you know".

Better luck next time.

I don't know why people like this, sure the topic is good, but the way to show it is really bad; some interviews with random people, all from one social class, without even asking some specialists or needy people, with some statistics about both countries, but without any conclusion. Some parodies about human cloning, illegal immigrants, price of your organs and so on. Don't misunderstand me, the idea is good, but a great theme, some interviews and statistics don't make a good movie.

The movie shows correctly the differences between Mexicans and us people, but fails at managing this in a proper order.

Like i said, Great topic, poor presentation.

I saw this film in Central Park! Last Summer. I have to say I loved it!! It's smart, witty and fun. The opinions of the people in it reveal a lot about both Mexican and American cultures. Sad and harsh at times but with a hopeful message at the end, this movie is a warning on how our money driven society it's bound to fail. I guess some of the people in this forum didn't understand it... They saw themselves reflected maybe? or maybe the structure was too sophisticated??

I think it's a wonderful essay on media, money, power and ignorance among other important subjects. We need to speak about this things. Now more than ever!!!