Comedy Lampooning the Rich the Highest-Grossing Film in Mexican Cinema History Agence France-Presse
go to original May 13, 2013

Nosotros Los Nobles trailer (JoeRiobamba)

How the mighty have fallen in Mexico — at least on movie screens and in social media.

A comedy lampooning the rich has become the highest-grossing film in Mexican cinema history, with five million moviegoers laughing at the story of a construction tycoon fooling his spoiled children into a life of poverty.

“Nosotros Los Nobles” (“We Are The Nobles”) has hit a nerve — or the funny bone — in a country with one of the widest income gaps in the world, where 10 percent of the people control 40 percent of the wealth while almost half live in poverty.

... “This film was a caricature, done with lots of love, of how Mexico is today, emphasizing the good and the bad, but with a hopeful tone saying that this is only a bad period,” Alazraki told AFP.

“Mexico today is similar to the United States in the 1930s: Divided social classes, a sharp wealth gap, not only between how much one or the other has, but also between the color of one’s skin,” the blue-eyed filmmaker said.

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