This is a lovely movie. I watched two Mexican films for Cinco de Mayo (I should have watched five while eating five mayonnaise sandwiches — now THAT woulda been a gimmick!). Its candle cave of the dead scene is worth the price of admission alone…
I was majorly overthinking the parable at the heart here and I’m pretty sure I sound like an idiot in the podcast, so sorry about that. It’s not so about the fear of death as it is about how death is the great equalizer of mankind. Or something like that. My kids were on spring break this week. I’m tired, but I survived to watch at least a few more movies. [1]
[1] MY ORIGINAL NOTES
Standard day of the Dead s*** opening parade, but they made a note about how the blending of the Christianity had changed the tradition
Title character intro
Hauling wood
Poor hard times
The class difference doesn't go away ✍️ when you die 14.4p0 puppets dream **
Mac leaves.
Mom steals a turkey. 2255 sped up music sounds rad *** audio?
Wife catches up w Mac and gives him whole turkey, all to himself, the only thing he's ever wanted.
Parable ass situation here
He's being hounded in woods by people (spirits?) Who wants some of the turkey, 1st man in black in exchange for gooda, then white as a sign of goodwill… 3rd a pure beggar man where he relents and shares ½
Healing magic water.
Cures his son but only if the spirit is at the foot of the bed
Cured rich buys life for 10 gold. Now rich guy running scheme
Sets up a whole business and takes his cut
Macario pretty stupid. Could just cut out this middle man but I guess he knows the clients.
Curing montage now
Song about what's happening
"Rich people die also" lyrics
But macario cures anyone and accepts whatever they can pay
He only has so much water left
The inquisition snatches him up
They find his holy water supply
Great interior shots *
The ghost won't let him cure the viceroy son to save himself. But he escapes in the process
The candle cave. *** So good
Beautiful, the lives of everyone, good and bad, long and short*
Ends with wife finding him dead and saying he lived like a child, on a whim. And she was glad to have given him that whim. Then she notices he never even finished the whole turkey from before.
Can see why it's a classic. 9
Very enjoyable. Need to research history and think about the themes a little more. But it's a good one!