Angels….. in Black!
8 August 2005
This melodrama could be consider the very first Mexican movie to deal with a racist topic, not very usual in the Mexican films until then, so Joselito Rodriguez had a double hit, he mixed the original idea of a racists problem to show and a maternal drama whose effectiveness he had already proved it as a sound engineer in Madre Querida(Juan Orol,1934),so he knew how to surprise the Mexican public more habituated to be victim of racism than being racist.

Besides the film has an extraordinary cast,Pedro infante who at least Joselito Rodriguez give him fame and fortune in this time, maybe to compensate the penury he was about to suffer, however Infante try to take in a good mood the matter which to his wife is a real tragedy –have a black daughter- and used to call her "chocolate splint" and several ways related with black color., the delicious Emilia Giu more blonde than ever who fulminate with her beautiful glance every black one who cross her way, and the "guilty" of all this clutter, the always weeping Rita Montaner,

the movie give us a little bit of everything, we can see some real dramatic scenes, some really funny ones and others involuntary laughable, an anthological scene of the Mexican dramas is shown :the little black daughter cover herself with talcum to become white one, in order to get her mother's love, –someone as an audience doesn't decided between laughing or crying at that moment- anyway all these picturesque situations make enjoyable every single minute of this film
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