More Than a Million People Have Seen This Film Lampooning Political Corruption in Mexico John Holman - VICE News
go to original November 5, 2014

La Dictadura Perfecta Trailer (La Dictadura Perfecta)

A Mexican politician is murdering political rivals and taking million-dollar bribes from a drug cartel that is terrorizing his electorate. Bodies hang from highway bridges, the army is kidnapping civilians, and a top television network is carefully concocting a tear-jerker story meant to distract audiences from other atrocities.

While this scenario might read like the latest news round-up from crisis-ridden Mexico, it's actually the plot for a new film by Luis Estrada, a director who has made a career out of mocking the tragicomic consequences of Mexico's culture of corruption.

The Perfect Dictatorship, Estrada's latest piece of biting cultural satire, premiered last Thursday. Its title derives from a phrase coined by Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa during a 1990 television appearance in Mexico, in which he cuttingly described the country's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) as a "perfect dictatorship."

Estrada's film is currently number one at the Mexican box office, and more than a million people have seen it.

"We decided to present several real-life cases where, even though they were in the media for weeks or months, we never found out what really happened," Estrada said in an interview with VICE News. "We wanted to create a mirror — for many, an ugly one — which describes the time and place in which we're living."

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