"I bet most of a politically incorrect film technology Century 21 "
/ Joan Espino
few years ago I followed closely the political theme of Latin American films, often lost in the issue is not widely reported but that blows between specific phrases or situations Crude reality living countries "third world" as Movies "Amores Perros", "City of God," "Herod's Law", "Elite Troop," "The Official Story" or "Ladrones a Domicilio" among many others, all, and leaving aside that are my favorites , have a strong visual discourse that will undoubtedly have a purely political background.
course some more than others, but each of these films have the courage to denounce essential and favor certain sectors of society which regularly turn out to be the underprivileged and forgotten the fairness of a "State" for which they bet, given its sympathy vote or declared publicly, but since then they turn away, plagued by corruption, beating them with limited possibilities and social opportunities. A "State" , shown transparent, but not to represent cleanliness in their handling, but by the absence of democratic power in countries that pretend to have it.
filmmaker, is not only himself as an artist of light, lens, plans, specifically cinematic language guide or noble art of performance development, is and should be a "whole being", defined by the canons established by post-modern societies. must present himself and be recognized as an individual with a strong, but especially given particular vision and overall religion, politics, education and culture from which .
The Director of "Political Movies" , like all people have an opportunity to express their ideas massively, fix their own interests or his version of the policy consider right side, truth. Just as the documentary filmmaker or Director of "Film History" , who show by their own beliefs or interests outside (but close) to what then call "History" .
So each film that apart from being merely interpretive also deserve special consideration in the evaluation of the viewer of what that screen perceived as "right and what I can deny to believe ", this being a tool of deterrence that it knew how to use the Soviet who i nvirtieron incalculable resources in building their political ideology as a shield using cinema, an art, followed by the masses rapidly absorbed all the structured content of a message tacked on elements that were not specifically designed for the "Art of the Twentieth Century" , but was consistent tool of thought at that time.
some time, I came wagering a Latin American cinema, rooted in the political strength of their people , wealth historical and symbolic, both of its martyrs, tyrants, customs or people, expressed in any form, perhaps because the characters or situations or forgotten.
is a social commitment, which must bear the Latin American and Caribbean filmmaker , provide an opportunity for reflective on certain issues could be discussed with some regularity in the mainstream media does not go beyond a real public opinion, or perhaps those issues that are forgotten by the delicate scourge of the ideology of the media owners and politicians.
The Film continent (if we may call this way) has the sensitivity to "reformulate" the political possibilities of our country creating arguments or hypotheses, situations in the human conditions, from the Argentine Gaucho , to the Chilean Mining through the young Cuban who does not believe in the revolution, or the conditions under which two distinct peoples agree on a same island.
this course be great if we could apply and get these results almost immediately.
no point in all this effort if we are not all calculated steps like a game of chess. As for creating this awareness, is likely to take a few years between "movies and films in order to lift the spirits lost by the anesthesia conformist of our peoples. Although try to be optimistic and think I'm wrong in this regard and perhaps with a new "Latin American Political Cinema" powder was successfully exploited in a series of chain social obstructions that require the support of various sectors, which are involved directly or indirectly.
But I have some faith in the matter. Well, remember the famous movement "French May 68 " led by Jean Luc Godard and followed by other distinguished minds, which brought about the restructuring of a remarkable cinematic discourse prompting further changes in a France that longed waking, could motivate a important group of filmmakers who hope soon to carry out their scripts to a major project that is preceded by still others with the same strength visual, conceptual and discursive.
For now, I believe in new technologies for digital cinema better, these new possibilities Cinema XXI Century , as always, is interested in knowing what to expect and from what particular vision so bold, provocative, politically incorrect, with an eye on the comparison of the sectors apart, divorced or dispersed in a society.
Joan Espino 
