Liliana T

I have the impression that there're people that expect that a film shows non-polluted main characters to deserve to be the main character. Real stories are not like that. People in real life are no saints or devils. To enjoy a movie, you don't need to love the main character or sympathize with him. You can hate the main character, it can be a murderer, or just a person with no symphaty. Hollywood has got us badly accustomed to films where main character are inhumane, with no contradictions, no errors, always nice, handsome, perfect smile, perfect respose, etc. If you like it or not the main character is a different discussion that doesn't say anything about the movie, acting, production, script, photography, etc. Neither films nor literature is a catechism. Was the main character hateful at times (always if you want)? Did he end in that situation because he wanted to hold political power? Did he marry Amalia to be promoted politically? Yes, yes, yes. Was this unfair to Amalia? Did her husband, sisters, stepmother, and father subdue her because of her condition as an indigenous and as a woman? Did she play the cards she could in all this tangle of power? Yes, yes, and yes. What does this has have to do with the quality of the movie? Nothing! Don't confuse the plot with the film! If that's the case we'd just be able to like Disney movies! I liked this movie because it talks about a real story. After all, the characters, their attitudes, their responses to each situation are credible. I'm thankful for having watched a film in which people and situations are not made up to portray people that don't exist in this world: angels and villains. Precisely because I felt sometimes antipathy and some others sympathy for the main characters, this story is worth to watch, because it moves these feelings. This is a well-done historical movie. Despite there're some gaps, as there're in all historical movies, I liked the production, the acting, and specially, that shows a gay man humanized (I mean not as a victim but as a person with their gray areas. Same about Amalia's character). It talks about prejudices, power relations at many layers, politics, women's history. Recommend it.