La Tragedia de Macario
by Pablo Veliz
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Actor: La Tragedia De MacarioDirector: Pablo Veliz
Brand: Laguna
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: AFD4018
Studio: Laguna Films
Product features:
- When his native town of Sabinas Hidalgo can no longer provide much more than nightly beans and tortillas, Mexican peasant worker Macario finds himself drawn uncontrollably to thoughts of crossing the border to find work and a more dignified life for his wife. When his struggles worsen, he can no longer wait, so Macario and his best friend set out on the dangerous journey north to the United States
Movie Reviews of La Tragedia de Macario
Movie Review: The face of an immigrant!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's no secret what the tragedy for Macario will be. We know something terrible will happen and why, what we are not familiar with is the journey to that destiny. Macario is the face of hundreds of immigrants from Central America who have only wanted to make better for their families when the work is no longer available in their country. The immigrants are not just names in the local papers, they are real people, humans with problems, dreams and hopes and a desire to earn for their families.
Director Pablo Velez was 23 with a need to make a film to tell the story that so many other people in his life were touched by some tragedy of those who wanted to cross the border, to work for a living, to provide for their families.
What Velez has done is draw upon the human side of immigrants, not the gory, he not the dramatic, nor the violent nor criminal. He shows us the face of Macario, a young man with a wife who already doesn't have enough for a dinner with meat. But we see him with great anxiety, trepidation enough to pray in the church before he makes that trip knowing he could not come back. With the slower pace of the film, the viewer has time to feel the fear for him.
You will hear some wonderful Mexican music, and here, with subtitles, it is an extension of interpreting the story for the viewer. Often with music in foreign film, the translation is not available, but here it is important.
According to an article in the Austin Chronicle, writer Joe O'Connell's interview with Velez states:
During early showings in San Antonio, Veliz saw grown men cry. "I never present America as Satan," he says. "This tragic event was created by two nations that call each other friends. It's not political; I'm making a human statement."
......Rizzo
Summary of La Tragedia de Macario
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