Once upon a time, Juan Pérez, the poorest of the poor, reaches fame in a fluke accident in what seemed to be an attempt of suicide, to protest against the government and his social condition.
The Ministry of Economy, surrounded by the scandal in which he is blamed by Pérez's decision, decides to reward him changing his life giving him a little house, a car and a job.
But when other poor people (Pérez's close friends) find out about his reversal of fortune, decide to imitate him faking suicide attempts in different buildings in Mexico City.
The Ministry of Economy, terrified by the glance of having a plague of beggars, decides to declare poverty a crime and hence finish for once and for all with all the poor in the country.
Pérez ends up behind bars.
Three years later, Pérez is released and goes back to his previous social condition, but this time, aware of having one day as a rich man is better than a life as poor, he will do anything to get out of his misery...
And he will manage to do so!
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The portrait that appears in the house of the politician Lascuraian, the Secretary of Economy of México, is, in fact, the portrait of Porfirio Díaz, president of México (1877-1911), and not from José Ives Limantour, Secretary of Economy of México in Diaz administration.
This movie was both funny and sad at the time. Leave it Demián Bichir to play a both goofy and sympathetic protagonist trying to make it in this cold world.
A WONDERFUL WORLD (dir. Luis Estrada) A savage political satire that rashly promotes class warfare and advocates the violent redistribution of wealth within the context of an extremely bitter fairytale.
I have to say I grew tired of satires ever since Vicente Fox was in office. After watching Damián Alcázar's face in the poster and the clichéd American title, I had the feeling it was going to be a satire against the government.
I had really liked director's Luis Estrada dark political satire La Ley de Herodes and I was looking forward to this one. But A Wonderful World disappoints.
Not bad, but you get a feeling of a missed opportunity. Essentially it is nowhere as good as La Dictadura Perfecta or La Ley de Herodes.
Despite several "condechi" reviewers (people from Colonia Condesa, a fancy neighborhood in Mexico City who don't know anything about politics, but what their friends in the government tell them)have given this movie a low grade and said it does not reflect Mexican reality, that Mexico it's not that corrupted, rude when speaking and lazy when finding solutions to reduce poverty (which I agree, the reality is much worse than the one portrayed in the film) I think it's an acceptable movie to see.************SPOILER ALERT************ ***********SPOILER ALERT********** ***********SPOILER ALERT*******First of all, and what some people don't want to see is that it's a fable, the movie is a fable with a crude moral and black humor, slightly based in unknown, but important facts in Mexican politics, like the minister's being Porfirio Diaz's grandson and the president's "compadre" (Mexican title for he, who is one's child's godfather.
When I watched this movie I thought I was going to sit down and enjoy a comedy and while it is very funny it is much more than a comedy. Immideately after every laugh I found myself thinking the same thing, "Wait, that's not supposed to be funny.
Not the best movie I've seen... not even dark, acid enough.
I went to the premiere in Mexico City of this movie, and became astonished how the public and private money can finance a movie about criticize the government without any kind of humor, sense or pride. The movie is portrayed in the 50's-style, but in a way is no 50's, 60's or any moment of Mexican recent history the spectator can recognize at all.