Behind all the false victimhood that Estrada programmed to promote his pamphlet, to generate morbidity and thus aspire to achieve what the war pamphlet TOP GUN: MAVERICK did achieve (get people back to the theaters), you will find the same Mexican devil, trying to make us believe that the PRI does not exist inside the 4T, and that Andrés - who was a civil servant in De la Madrid's term - and his disguised PRI/PAN/PRD dinosaur buddies are nothing but a purified miracle. When in fact the biggest achievement so far inside the 4T, is the economical experiment by PAN/MORENA's brilliant former Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier. The super peso and Gasoline controled price, prove the Economy's Evolution. Well, Estrada missed the opportunity to talk about this evolution, instead of making the same jokes that reinforce stereotypes.
So many years betting on those devils, has the consequence that the Estrada ritualistic chiles/churros have gone bad, and no longer fit in the Mexicans that survive south of the Rio Grande: us who resist going to the US as gardeners/domestic workers/nannies, or have already been there, done that; us who will not sell our property so the Real Estate Cartel + AIRBNB + the usual bad guys disguised as 4T purified products, have any profit on our watch; us who do not receive "maiceadas" from the US Embassy, or "remesas" from the Mojados, which have emboldened US Embassy agents AND Mojados alike to believe that they are the new owners of Mexico. Could that be the audience Estrada is talking to, so that they proceed granting their "maiceadas" and sending "remesas"? That would explain the disconnection between the audience and Estrada's latest pamphlet. Estrada's next movie could be the reaction to this movie, I bet it would be much more fun. But something tells me Estrada's sport is not about evolution. More than an Artist, he is an Artesano: 1 product with lots of copies. Just what happens in Politics vs. An Artist that makes every piece unique. The current president that Estrada/Alcázar have programmed the audience to love since they made LA LEY DE HERODES, doesn't believe in Cinema, but hey: it's all about the Economy, right? Estrada used to be the radiographist of Mexico, and now he needs to be transferred to the Postcard department.
In Estrada's favor, the jokes about the 4T ("para caer bien") are well thought. I suppose Estrada has already calculated the ever repeating program and when the day comes when he is asked of the scandals inside the 4T, he will be able to present its biggest achievement, which is to second the motion started by Violeta Nuñez, regarding Canada owning so much land (mining) that goes undeclared in maps.
But hey, it's just a movie and it is not a disaster that Estrada's postcards are no longer profitable. It does inspire folks to express themselves of the experience, so we feel proud of free speech: and as long as the films of Iñárritu/Del Toro/Franco/Cuarón continue evolving Cinema and earning prizes in international festivals, Estrada's reprogramming is for the birds.
