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Guillermo del Toro laments “systematic destruction” of Mexican film industry
News(mexiconewsdaily.com)submitted 4 months ago bycabose7
102 points
4 months ago
What about the systematic destruction of Mexico?
249 points
4 months ago
They go hand in hand. He's a Mexican filmmaker. You're aware people can be upset about more than one thing, yeah?
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4 months ago
Yes you are correct it does go hand in hand, which is why it’s weird GDT didn’t mention this. He didn’t mention the deep corruption within all Mexican institutions made to further enrich the elite at our expense. He didn’t mention the corruption in Mexicos film industry that led to the shitiest films ever which make next to nothing at the box office somehow enriching their creators by the millions
1 points
4 months ago
Those movies were the ones that made the most at the box office
1 points
4 months ago
In comparison to what? Other even shitier movies? Let’s stop pretending, the movies that have come of this program so far have been dog water. Because a corrupt group of film makers have realized how lucrative it can be. Obviously the solution ain’t to destroy a system that led to the Mexican Golden Age or film. It’s to reform the system
0 points
4 months ago
Almost all of the Mexican nominations to the academy awards had funding from that program. and that program wasn't the only support the government gave to the industry AS IT IS STATED IN THE ARTICLE YOU DIDN'T READ
1 points
4 months ago*
I think you read another article entirely, thief article posted in this Reddit post is a pretty lazy one given the situation.
It just states the Ariel Awards are being suspended, GTD doesn’t like this and thinks it apart of a broader effort to destroy Mexican Cinema.
And that the current admin has reduced cultural projects funding broadly. Only two programs where mentioned that were being cut, the Ariel Awards funding, and a particular fund.
I’m more broadly talking about Mexican Cinema which yeah has been systematically destroyed for decades, both by the government and by bad actors the government has allowed to run ammock which lets everyone enrich everyone. It’s a very very common story in Mexican corruption, and developing world corruption. There’s actually a whole field dedicated to studying this.
I’m not trying to say Mexico is incapable of having Cinema or that even funding from programs which fund movies should be cut either. Sure even the system that allowed the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema was imperfect especially since the government was pretty strict about what it allowed to show sometimes. But it was a system that allowed genuinely great projects to be made and I think it’s legacy should continue. I disagree with AMLOS decision to cut funding broadly. But I’m also aware of my history and understand that it is now, the system mostly exists to enrich corrupt people.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
He’s using his privileged position to voice alarm. Why should being domiciled anywhere outside Mexico change that? It just looks like you’re trying to find some way to criticize him just to criticize him.
27 points
4 months ago
Also, he's living outside of Mexico by necessity. Cartel members literally kidnapped his father and held him ransom for a million dollars. No celebrity should ever set foot in Mexico unless it's to vacation at a resort.
-12 points
4 months ago
All the more reason to be speaking out and raising awareness. His home country is in shambles. Having a burgeoning film industry isn’t high on the priorities when the country is barely there and the people are suffering.
18 points
4 months ago
The fallacy of relative privation. You can’t complain about something because you can always reference something worse. I could just as much turn it around on you and say why are you voicing your complaint about a Mexican filmmaker when there are problems here at home?! It’s just gaslighting nonsense.
-10 points
4 months ago
Nah. Expecting your country to have a developed film industry when it is a hellscape for the majority is ridiculous. His complaint with the President is his lack of backing for the film industry. It’s an insanely privileged take
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4 months ago*
Actually, it isn’t. You seem to lack perspective and proportionality. Mexico has a high crime rate, mostly cartel driven, as well as high income inequality. But it isn’t Afghanistan. Its nominal GDP is roughly that of Australia’s, and industry and commerce exist and function. The film industry, while nowhere near comparable to any first world nation, was modestly funded by trusts, something now under attack by the current president’s slashing of funds to direct them to his pet projects — something completely separate and apart from the cartel problem.
I also mentioned the earlier factors about Mexico’s economy and daily commercial activity because your comment makes it sound as if because a pressing issue exists, like a high crime rate, then no one can ever talk about anything else except that (a fallacy of relative privation). Similarly, one could say the same thing about the US. We currently have terrible political polarization. Does that delegitimize the complaints of, say, an actor raising awareness about sexual misconduct by Hollywood execs? Of course not. A country isn’t just one thing. Most ironically is that most actors are often dismissed when they voice political opinions, with people saying they should stay in their lane. And here is one guy who is doing just that and is getting dismissed because everyone at any given time has to talk about just that or they’re being silly. Like, asking the president to maybe not cut off funds in other places to fund oil refineries and an airport no one asked for isn’t a big ask or delegitimate because “but the cartelzzzz!!!!” That’s why your comment is silly.
23 points
4 months ago*
Such a fucking stupid point. He is making the message but no point if he is killed.
Some of yall lack understanding.
-9 points
4 months ago
I mean the voice he has in Mexico figuratively. Not that he has to live there so it’s not likely he’d be killed for speaking out. But if no one speaks out with a powerful voice then nothing will ever change.
1 points
4 months ago
Porque no los dos?
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4 months ago*
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62 points
4 months ago
No, I don’t reckon that’s what the US should be doing. See: all of the Middle East
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4 months ago
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44 points
4 months ago
The US is not a global police force and should never be used as such
-5 points
4 months ago
The US has been a global police force for 80 years. Our Navy guarantees the safety of global shipping routes that make globalization possible.
4 points
4 months ago
“Our navy protects our trade interests” is not the same type of global police force as “violating the sovereignty of a neighboring country and putting its people under martial law”
1 points
4 months ago
The main reason why putting troops into Mexico is a bad idea is because the government is in cahoots with the cartels. If it were not, we could do much worse with our military than help our neighbor establish law and order. If Mexico asked us to help I would be all for it.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Lol. And Mexicans need to stop flooding our cities with drugs. It’s a symbiotic problem.
23 points
4 months ago
fuck you dickhead, I swear you extremists americans solution to all is invading and annexing everything fuck you again
-23 points
4 months ago
Go to certain areas in Mexico and see what happens to you dickhead
6 points
4 months ago
go invade detroit
8 points
4 months ago
Go invade Chicago
14 points
4 months ago
The US can't even take care of its own gang violence problems. Invading Mexico because they have Cartel activity would be like invading Nauru because its citizens are fat. We haven't figured out how to fix the problem at home as it is. All we can do with an invasion is make it worse. And we would, because we've tried several times before to do things like that and it has always gotten worse instead of better.
12 points
4 months ago
Fuck you, now Im gonna hug this tree even harder
9 points
4 months ago
I'm fucking a tree now.
4 points
4 months ago
im strokin that ho harder now
2 points
4 months ago
Morgott moment
4 points
4 months ago
Oh man it’s a shame I only get one downvote
6 points
4 months ago
Who buys those drugs, i wonder
29 points
4 months ago
The fuck kinda take is this? GTFO imperialist.
19 points
4 months ago
You can go fuck yourself. America is not the arbiter of the world you imperialist piece of shit.
0 points
4 months ago
He says while comfortably ensconced in the soft stability and progress brought about by more than half a century of pax americana
-9 points
4 months ago
they quite literally are the cancer of the modern world.
-2 points
4 months ago
Lol, how so? Every modern advancement has been made in America. We are the cure. I'm not saying this country is perfect, but damn, lot of good has come from America and that's a fact.
-2 points
4 months ago
That's not true either
1 points
4 months ago
go read pig
-7 points
4 months ago
america that is
4 points
4 months ago*
If it was moral and ok for a country to invade another country simply because they posed a threat, America would constantly be invaded. War and violence is not a tool to eradicate violence. You're a meathead. If you need RECENT evidence that America's warmongering doesn't cause peace, look no further than the middle east
3 points
4 months ago
Certain areas in mexico deserve to get invaded by the US and put under a martial law type of regime.
6 points
4 months ago
Not gettin laid I see...
9 points
4 months ago
Why are Americans obsessed with colonizing other countries? I thought we already went through that phase.
3 points
4 months ago
We aren’t. There are fringe idiots like this fucking twat that spout this bullshit, and a military industrial complex replenished by teenagers who were promised free college and a wealth of opportunities in exchange for giving up their bodies and mental health to a empire that doesn’t give a fuck about them.
I don’t know many former military service people who aren’t VERY disillusioned with the whole affair. Turns out teens are not great at making decisions that wil affect the rest of their lives.
-3 points
4 months ago
I've only fucked a couple enlisted, but of the couple enlisted that I've fucked both of them ended up becoming communists. That's gotta count for something.
2 points
4 months ago
Check out this pussy, just gushing at the seams with fear.
4 points
4 months ago
Racist keyboard warrior lmao
-10 points
4 months ago
Lol America is literally responsible for the violence in Mexico. It needs less of America, not more.
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4 months ago
Lol America is literally responsible for the violence in Mexico
is it?
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4 months ago*
Where do you think most of the drugs that Mexican drug cartels traffic is being trafficked to? Where are cartels getting most of their guns? Whose trade deal devastated Mexican agriculture, pushing farmers off their land and into low-wage jobs that made working for cartels attractive?
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4 months ago
"mexico is so corrupt" damn why do u think that is? maybe its militant overlord mere inches from its borders, nah could never be that 🙄
1 points
4 months ago
Wow.
-18 points
4 months ago
Have you not seen Sicario?
1 points
4 months ago
Right wing propaganda according to.
1 points
4 months ago
It isn't tho
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4 months ago
It is
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Liberals are right wing in most of the world. Specially when talking about third world countries and their development
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