1973

"1973", directed by Antonino Isordia. The film connects three separate stories of people united by two themes: they were born in 1973 in Mexico City, and their lives have been, to different extents, destroyed. 1973 Is the tale of three people in Mexico City that were born in that year. Since their first memory until our days, they describe a radiography of the existence of a young midle class man, they share the carachtereristic of wanting to be someone, the dream of running away from their city, and a personal colapse of tragic consecuences.


　　The massacre of student protesters just before the 1968 Olympics began in Mexico City turned the youthful optimism of a generation into disillusionment. Antonino Isordia’s aggressively stylized documentary looks at three young Mexicans who represent the consequence of that disappointment. Each born in 1973 in the Districto Federal, they were reared amidst a pall of continued political turmoil and social inequity. First up is Rodolfo Escogido, an activist who began as a high school organizer, leading a multi-campus student congress. When he broke with the dominant party, PRI, he found himself incarcerated on trumped-up robbery charges. Maria Fernanda Ramos followed la vida loca as a response to the indifference of her too-busy parents. Maria’s fatalism led to a botched suicide attempt. Finally, Alejandro Cota toys with the documentary process, fabricating stories until settling upon the real one, his life as a mass murderer. Isordia’s kinetic compositions and startling sound design add an undertone of possibility to a portrait of dead ends.