Important movie because there are so little movies that tried to capture the essence of the world before the spaniards came, almost all the movies are about the clash and colonization of civilizations. Here we can have an approach of how it could be living in the world of myth, shamans, magic, struggle for power between gods, and how they gave their world a coherence based on these aspects. I have always imagined this kind of myth and magic worlds as a video game like Zelda, in which one has to complete missions, meet gods and avoid the world crumble and succumb. It is a famous myth of creation in Mayas and Aztecs how the gods have to complete many tasks to make the rain come or how corruption makes the gods angry and destroy the world. Its a shame so little movies like this exists, but well, the American indigenous genocida (human and cultural genocide) is very belittled and subtly justified by Christian eurocentrism. Not a perfect movie but with the small budget and information about the prehispanic world, it was a good movie.
Review of Retorno a Aztlán
