Maestro Salas
The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man.
La iglesia, a lo largo de la historia, siempre se ha enfrentado al cine como uno de sus principales censores. “Nuevo Mundo” cuestiona el mito guadalupano al presentar cómo para someter a los indios, un sacerdote jesuita inventa la presencia de una Virgen que pide la reconciliación entre conquistadores y conquistados. Retes nos presenta en esta película una alegoría del método utilizado por los españoles para imponer su religión y asumir con ello un completo poder político sobre los indígenas. Producida en 1976, “Nuevo Mundo” fue boicoteada en su exhibición por el controvertido tema al que hace referencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
