The Perfect Dictatorship: A New Film That's Making Mexican Politicians Sweat Jan-Albert Hootsen - Vocativ
go to original October 18, 2014

This week thousands of Mexican movie theaters will premier director Luis Estrada's newest film The Perfect Dictatorship, a stab at relations between the country's political elite and the manipulated press. While not yet screened, the film has already sparked praise and criticism. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City. (teleSUR)

MEXICO CITY - As if the disappearance of 43 students, the discovery of mass graves and a federal investigation into a possible mass execution by soldiers weren’t enough, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto now has another thing to worry about. La Dictadura Perfecta (The Perfect Dictatorship) premiered yesterday in over 2,500 theaters in Mexico. It’s the latest film from Luis Estrada. And when Estrada makes a movie, Mexican politicians know they’re in trouble.

Estrada is the most rebellious and controversial filmmaker in Mexico. He is a master of political satire, a merciless critic of politics and society, and an artist who loves making his countrymen uncomfortable.

His latest film is part three of a trilogy that began in 2000 with La Ley de Herodes (Herod’s Law), a film that ridiculed the corruption and nepotism that characterized the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico as a one-party state between 1929 and 2000. (The PRI is now back in power, with the Nieto presidency.) His follow-up, 2010's El Infierno (Hell), was an extremely violent black comedy about Mexico’s bloody drug war.

And now there’s La Dictadura Perfecta, and once again Estrada doesn’t pull punches. The film depicts the perverted relationship between monopolistic media conglomerates and Mexico’s ruling political caste. In the film, a corrupt and murderous governor employs the services of a powerful television station to manipulate the news into diverting attention from a bribery scandal.

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