Rosa blanca

La Rosa Blanca, based on the novel by B. Traven, belongs to a long list of Mexican movie titles that unfortunately and for different means were "enlatadas". In this case, Gerardo de la Torre, novelist and script writer, that presented the film a few years ago within a festival dedicated to forbidden movies, tells us that the real reasons behind the banning were not the usual political matters to which we are used in our country, but to the scenes that Christiane Martel, future wife of Miguelito Alemán, son of former president of México, did in the film. Nothing outrageous for our time, nevertheless, owner of delightful breasts, she pours herself in a seductive and erotic way, unveiling the stupor of the correct minds of the epoch.

The movie, on the contrary, is extremely didactic around the causes that lead to the Mexican Oil Expropiation of 1938, decreed by President Lázaro Cárdenas. It shows the predatory ways of the foreign industry involved in the exploitation of natural resources in México, and it was in accordance with the nationalist "priism" speech of the era to which both of the names above worked for. It's a great cinematographic piece, that must be seen by the last Mexican generations, so consumed by neo liberal and globalization slogans.