The movie shocks almost from the beginning to the end. I think the movies name is ironic as in the end the same pld people are rulling everything but the people that were trying to do good in the movie all died...
I think Nuevo Orden is a beautiful, merciless, cruel and necessary film, so good in depicting what can happen if (when?) there's so much social injustice in a country as complex as Mexico. Almost everyone is bad (rich, poor, but especially the army), and the few good ones do not end well... It reminds of past Latin American dictatorships and it shows no hope. I love Franco's films, and this (perhaps his more pessimistic) is my favourite one.
It's not very clear what the director's intention is, why adopt the point of view of the upper class, why turn revolutionaries into anonymous characters who practice exaggerated violence. This dystopia on the class struggle is more epidermal than really deep, more superficial than reflective, more conservative than progressive. The view is pessimistic: social status can only be reversed, never balanced.
I liked it. It seems to me that Michel Franco's direction is good and he manages to correctly assemble the different elements of the film. The script is good, although it has details in the chronology that should have been better taken care of by both the direction and the edition. The performances of the entire cast seemed successful to me, and although most of the extras do their job well, there are some specific cases in which their poor execution is distracting; Special mention for the cops, who actually act like most cops. There is a lot of violence, not only physical, but psychological. And the fact that it has been labeled classist seems to me not incorrect but absurd: obviously it is classist, because Mexico is classist. The production values in the set designs fall short, there is something that makes it look layout, not real. But the worst? The worst was not the extra who stares at the camera twice; The worst thing is that if we fell into a state of restriction of individual guarantees (yes, I know they are called human rights in the latest version of the Constitution, but I still have that concept recorded), I do believe that the army would behave like this. The worst thing is the realistic of how latent everything is shown in the film.
Despite the recent fetish of mainstream cinema for class struggle, most films only focused on ideals without actually taking into consideration how these could be exploited in the real world. “Nuevo Orden” is built around a what-if scenario to show how populism could be exploited by totalitarian movements and result in brutal consequences, without taking sides or dramatizing to cause empathy in its audience.
Visually striking, it makes interesting use of static long shots even when you would usually prefer confusing cuts or handheld footage to go along the chaos on screen.
The aseptic and somewhat artsy mood might make it hard to enjoy in a conventional way, but honestly, I would have appreciated even more cynicism.
Extreme class struggle in Mexico
I was surprised, I liked it. Harsh images, but I don't really understand the change of direction
Shout by CybertronKBBlockedParent2021-08-18T21:09:48Z
Brutal movie, well made. What can happen when the elite who is corrupt face the majority of the minority (economically). There is a ruthlessness in this movie I have not seen in awhile, to whose who it benefits in the movie. Foreign language movies as a English speaker consistently pushes the boundaries of cinema unlike the American film industry.
7.7/10