5/10
The devil's biggest trick is to make us believe that it does not exist": Baudelaire
18 May 2023
Behind all the false victimhood that Estrada programmed to promote his pamphlet, to generate morbidity and thus aspire to achieve what the war pamphlet TOP GUN: MAVERICK did achieve (get people back to the theaters), you will find the same Mexican devil, trying to make us believe that the PRI does not exist inside the 4T, and that Andrés - who was a civil servant in De la Madrid's term - and his disguised PRI/PAN/PRD dinosaur buddies are nothing but a purified product. When in fact the biggest achievement so far inside the 4T, is the economical experiment by PAN/MORENA's brilliant former Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier. The super peso and Gasoline controled price, prove the Economy's Evolution. Well, Estrada missed the opportunity to talk about this evolution, instead of making the same jokes that reinforce stereotypes.

So many years betting on those devils, has the consequence that the Estrada ritualistic chiles/churros have gone bad, and no longer fit in the Mexicans that survive south of the Rio Grande: us who resist going to the US as gardeners/domestic workers/nannies, or have already been there, done that; us who will not sell our property so the Real Estate Cartel + AIRBNB + the usual bad guys, disguised as 4T purified products, have any profit on our watch; us who do not receive "maiceadas" from the US Embassy, or "remesas" from the Mojados, which have emboldened US Embassy AND Mojados alike to believe that they are the new owners of Mexico. Could that be the audience Estrada is talking to, US Diplomats and Mojados, so that they proceed sending their "maiceadas" and "remesas"? That would explain the disconnection between the audience and the pamphlet. Estrada's next movie could be the reaction to this movie, I bet it would be much more fun. But something tells me Estrada's sport is not about evolution. More than an Artist, he is an Artesano: 1 product with lots of copies. Just what happens in Politics vs. An Artist that makes every piece unique. The current president that Estrada/Alcázar have programmed the audience to love since LA LEY DE HERODES, doesn't believe in Cinema, but hey: it's all about the Economy.

The jokes about the 4T ("para caer bien") are well thought. I suppose Estrada has already seen where the tendency will continue, and when the day comes when he is asked of the future scandals inside the 4T, he will be able to present his pamphlet, because its biggest achievement is to second the motion started by Violeta Nuñez, regarding Canada owning so much land that goes undeclared in maps. Estrada used to be the radiographist of Mexico, and now he needs to be transferred to the Postcard department.

But hey, it's just a movie and it is not a disaster that Estrada's postcards no longer work as a business. It does inspire folks to express themselves of the experience: and as long as the films of Iñárritu/Del Toro/Franco/Escalante/Cuarón continue to triumph at international festivals, Estrada's reprogramming is expendable.
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