Two years
and a half have passed since Presumed Guilty debuted at the international documentary film festival in Amsterdam. Finally, after wandering through a lot of festivals, among which is located in Morelia, where he spent a short-lived controversy, the film directed by Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith, about the trial and imprisonment of an innocent man in the city Mexico, get full impact of commercial cinemas in their country of origin preceded by a tremendous scandal. No wonder. I marvel at the fact that a documentary so it can be released in commercial theaters, I wonder that the makers of this film have not received no visit uncomfortable by the hosts of any law enforcement officers portrayed in the film, but mostly I marvel at the fact that a country founded on such organizations and has not broken into pieces.
Presumed Guilty tells the terrible story of Antonio Zúñiga, a man accused of executing hand of a murder in broad daylight, who was given a sentence of 20 years in prison. Antonio is an interesting character and unusual from the beginning. Owner of the physical features of the Mexican classic, the tone is a breakdancer working arranging games and computers in a street market, until a good day for many personal problems that God wanted to kill him or brought himself to jail. Days after making his strange request, police informing him that he had killed a man and he had "fucked."
The grotesque miracle was known for some young people eager to dig into the pigsty which is Mexican justice and inconsistencies began to appear immediately. Lawyers with fake certificates, judges who ignore all evidence to support the captors, prosecutors would be to Forrest Gump as a gifted, obviously false testimony, police officers who give shares to enclose people, statistics blood-curdling and judgments sold from the beginning are some of the pearls of shit that this documentary brings to light. The Mexican criminal justice system is naked to unveil a ruthless and abominable monster.
The great quality of Presumed Guilty it works as a kind of thriller . The editing is so good that we are gradually entering the story as if it were fiction, thanks to the endearing main character and a series of sequences of a special emotional level, that make your hair stand on end and we have the hand through this story which, despite everything you can think of, there is no hint of redemption.
not go into the controversial case of alleged censorship is being imposed to the film, and the worst part is that I think has a good legal basis, because it is clear that some of those involved did not give permission to to use their faces, which only say that I find it ironic, to say the least, that those who reject seen in the film want to ignore the law so that it no longer displayed in the movie theaters.
Much has been said also that the film does not capture the true story of victim (the dead). I do not understand that point of view, since the plot has a narrow focus but clear, so clear that after 24 hours of having seen it, I soaked the brutal pathos of which will undoubtedly be one of the most outstanding Mexican films released in 2011.
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