Year: 1976
Duration: 01:48:42
Directed by: Felipe Cazals
Actors: Diana Bracho, Malena Doria, Leonor Llausás, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Language: Spanish
Country: Mexico
Also known as: De los pormenores y otros sucedidos del dominio público que acontecieron a las hermanas de triste memoria a quienes la maledicencia así las bautizó
Description: This is a graphic story of some unaware women that are kidnapped or bought in the black market by three sisters (Las Poquianchis) and are obliged to work in a Brothel.
And YES! They get Punished for shitting all over themselves…as you can see in the Screenshots.
Review: Based on a true story, the film leaves the investigation Felipe Casals (The Heist) eerie impression. It seems that today such a genre was quite common (especially on TV), and a mockumentary about a high-profile crimes follow one another, exposing all that is necessary and not necessary, but the fact that «Las Poquianchis» For all its realism, concreteness and faktologichnosti – first of all, a work of art. And, very talented. And the events that took place in Mexico in 1964 to become the director just an excuse to talk about serious social issues. Another thing is that the problems of these solutions in the existing society are not, no matter what the court of a year’s worth and what country is this world is your backyard. Wherefore, the movie looks exhausting soul history, frightening much stronger than any horror movie because of its commonness and the consequent hopelessness of everyday life.
The trial of the sisters Chui in the mid 60’s was a shock to Mexican society. Their offense seemed to go beyond humanity and be something out of the ordinary. Casals also rips off their romantic flair Evil draped press, and shows with an ugly and at the same time everyday inside out. Represents all perfect sisters and their band as a very natural and logical outcome of a society of social injustice. A society in which peasants evicted from their land by large landowners, and then are forced to sell their daughters into a brothel, because otherwise they will die of hunger, a society in which government is so corrupt that for a price, turning a blind eye to the actions of the death squads, Spreads those who refused to sell their land for a pittance, a society in which criminals and murderers are the most devout parishioners, etc, etc. «Las Poquianchis» not that exposes it all – there is no point in all throat shout about, as everyone knows. The film just bitterly states the facts and brings to the quite obvious thought that the sisters were just Chui flesh of this society, and they have created a clandestine brothel workers who were kept in inhumane conditions, but a reflection of a distorting mirror of the entire system.
Of course, when the truth came to light outside when the secret burial sites have been excavated were killed or died from abuse of girls, the audience was horrified. But in the next moment the sisters have become the object of media exploitation … The endless interviews, the trial in the headlines – every bit of what happened dissected under a microscope and laid out on a fun respectable audience that is willing to break the villains. Here are just villains do not recognize themselves as such – because they themselves out of such a public and did not do anything that would run counter to their beliefs and their morals. They just made their living, have been working hard on Sundays went to church and tried to the best of his understanding arrange unfortunate girls in this life. It is not their fault that someone from the past did not take such care … And for that they have received the maximum term by Mexican laws in forty years, to understand women can not. Especially because their cause, despite everything that happened, continues, and in the epilogue we see one of the former «las poquianchis» mistress of a new brothel. Probably, it will not be such orders, as if sisters Chui – times are changing. But the essence remains the same. In the modern capitalist world there is no place humanity.
Removing this picture, Felipe Casals clearly took place on the left of the political ranks. Rights if he was? I do not know, but if it «Las Poquianchis» and proclamation, the proclamation damn convincing.
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