{"id":328,"date":"2009-02-24T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446398850538831139.post-2398725794111232207"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:28:47","slug":"%c2%a1que-viva-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/2009\/02\/24\/%c2%a1que-viva-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Que viva M\u00e9xico!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Que viva M\u00e9xico! provides an unexpected point of view of Mexico from Russia.  I think the film sincerely attempts to provide a picture of a &#8220;true&#8221; Mexico.  What I found interesting is what they show and what they don&#8217;t show.  The movie starts off by showing a landscape of Mexico, and then goes into the people and the revolution.  What I find is interesting, especially compared to the other movies we&#8217;ve watched so far, is the lack of the representation of the city as a space.  Mexico city was and still is  a rapidly growing urban centre.  Mexico was represented as an almost barren land. I&#8217;m not sure how much I liked the lack of a clear plot.  It was pretty hard to really get to know or develop the characters.  This could stem from the film&#8217;s attempt to display Mexico as a whole collective rather than exploring the individual, which could be influenced from the film&#8217;s communist roots.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the authentic feel of the film but I&#8217;m not sure if the lack of dialog\/plot worked for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res1.blogblog.com\/tracker\/446398850538831139-2398725794111232207?l=maxstmaurice.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Que viva M\u00e9xico! provides an unexpected point of view of Mexico from Russia.  I think the film sincerely attempts to provide a picture of a &#8220;true&#8221; Mexico.  What I found interesting is what they show and what they don&#8217;t show.  The movie starts off by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3515,333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-que-viva-mexico","category-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span404\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}