HER DOCS FILM FESTIVAL
SILENCIO RADIO (RADIO SILENCE)
Watchable. Stunning cinematography renders Mexico City awe-inspiring. The pictures highlight immense modern buildings or glistening surfaces of the edifices or the road. The everyday reality is grimmer though, shocking even - with bodies of killed journalists or hanged drug dealers found in the streets. The Mexican documentary inadvertently reveals so much about the country authorities' wrongdoings, the drug cartels war manifested by dead bodies hanging in the streets, the army mutilating students, that I understood why the "Nuevo orden" ("New Order") director implicated the army in his feature film. It also brought to mind "Sicario" in regards to the drug crime and every day brutality. The actual story of the TV journalist was less comprehensible to me - an outsider. I loved the song over the end credits - the lyrics carry a meaning consistent with the topic and the melody is very enjoyable.
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