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Canoa

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Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.09 x 5.43 x 0.59 inches; 2.88 ounces


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    • Mob Psychology, Scapegoats, A Potent Statement!
"Canoa" (1976) is a powerful, very evocative Mexican film based upon a "reportedly real incident" that took place in 1968. Canoa was a town near the city of Puebla that was under the thrall of a venal and corrupt priest with his hand in every till. He stirred up the population about Communists and rebellious rabble rousers who he claimed would cause dire trouble for the town. It was a poor place with a largely Indian population that had hardscrabble farming conditions due to the effects of erosion. The land had been stripped of its forestation for wood and charcoal. A loudspeaker broadcast propaganda to the town and was used by the priest as a conduit (along with his sermons) for his hate-mongering. The priest, wearing sun glasses like a mobster boss, ran every aspect of the town, but his supporters said that he was the one who had brought the telephone, electricity, the highway and water to the town fountain. He charged for those who used the fountain as a water supply. The movie is told almost as a documentary with characters speaking before the camera. It has captions depicting the time and date. Five engaging, carefree young male employees of the University of Puebla were making a mountain climbing trip. Their bus lets them off in Canoa where their expedition is interrupted by a severe rain storm. They seek overnight shelter in the town. Word spread that these five are student agitators similar to the leftist university dissidents who caused trouble in some of Mexico's large cities. The mob scenes in which the large crowds are surging through the streets hunting down the "troublemakers" carrying pitchforks. torches and tool-weapons are not done as cleverly as they could have been because they are too reminiscent of the Transylvania mobs pursuing Frankenstein's monster. While the climbers took refuge in a peasant house, a mob forms with a lynching psychology. The way mob psychology is created and proliferated is handled very well in the film. Suspense builds as the crowd swells and grows more agitated. The rioters set upon and viciously attack the outsiders, and several of the innocents are killed The priest is shown in a sermon rationalizing what has happened and in a scene (in civies) in which he is talking to the camera. He does not tell how he has manipulated the townspeople and imposed his will upon them by creating scapegoats and imaginary "enemies." There is a beautiful, "life goes on" scene at the end where the townspeople are having a folkloric celebration and ritualistic dance in colorful costumes which recall their Indian past. It's a movie that deserves a wider following because of its significance and also because of the way the story is developed and filmed. A fine production. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2009 by John F. Rooney
    • Not for the faint of heart...
An authentic Mexican film epic that's based on the true story of a corrupt Catholic priest who manipulates his flock to murder a group of students who he thinks are communist revolutionaries (The 1968 San Miguel Canoa Massacre). The film explores religious fanaticism, mob mentality, ideological manipulation, and the horrors of the virulent and grisly violence that has plagued Mexico since the country's founding. Yeah, def not for the kiddos... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023 by Danny
    • Socio-cultural history
I always find Creterion collection of films format focus on background information of all its subjects titles re-screening too be a hallmark of their entire library of films. Canoa, is no different as it describes how a religion has reshape the cultural fabric of an entire population or grouping of people the protagonist, a religious figures hold on the psyche of those he's supposedly to be administering charitable ideas of faith and good conscious to his flock. Turns, in his hands into means of only dark dangerous division and disingenuous derision. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2024 by Frankie Jay
    • GRAN PELÍCULA, GRAN TRABAJO DE RESTAURACIÓN
Un transfer impecable de una película perfecta.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019 by Saul Montoro
    • Five Stars
Wonderfully restored great movie and delivery was excellent. Thank you
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017 by Amazon Customer
    • Five Stars
A great film, I can't wait until it gets the full treatment one day though.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2014 by DG
    • CANOA
A VERY MASTER WORK, NO WONDER IS ONE OF THE BEST MEXICAN FILMS. VERY IMPRESSIVE AND REALISTIC!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2009 by HUETMICH
    • A Visceral, Savage, Intelligent Film.
"Canoa" is a savage, brilliant work that is usually looked over when Mexican cinema is discussed, especially now when a general audience's experience with Mexican film usually consists of just "Amores Perros" or "Pan's Labyrinth," some of course know of the great Luis Bunuel's highly influential work. But here is a film that should be seen wherever available, it is a visceral mix of politics, violence and realism. "Canoa" chronicles the brutal assault on a group of Mexican youths by a town ruled over by a corrupt priest who poisons the inhabitants' minds with warnings about Communist hordes threatening to invade. The year is 1968 and Mexico is experiencing the same kind of political upheaval by student movements felt all around the world, it is a time when just being associated with a university means being associated with radical, Leftist politics. In this atmosphere a group of Mexican youths go on a road trip to and end-up trapped by rain in tiny Canoa, a dark place which director Felipe Cazals introduces us with great detail at the beginning. Through an observant campesino we learn about the town and its people, and how a corrupt priest has declared himself the government of the place, ruling over every aspect of the town's life. When the students arrive he stirs the people into a frenzy already made toxic by stories coming out of the cities claiming that the student movement is lead by Communists who seek to destroy the Catholic Church. The story of the events in Canoa has been somewhat buried when Mexico's history of the 1960s is discussed, probably because the lynching of the group of youths took place a month before the notorious massacre of Tlatelolco in Mexico City where hundreds of marching students were butchered by the military, that event remains the key moment of 1968 in Mexico and has of course, overshadowed or even buried the events of Canoa. But Felipe Cazal's film more than makes-up for a lack of extensive scholarship considering his film is almost a documentary, in fact Cazal directed a documentary short on this subject before making the feature film. The eye for detail is highly impressive and Cazal's masterfully informs us with facts, dates, times and names while at the same time keeping us gripped and horrified. Like the best historical dramas, "Canoa" works as both an enlightening film and as pure entertainment. "Canoa" also succeeds as a complex psychological study. The film deals with various themes such as mob violence, political propaganda and religious fanaticism. Cazals captures vividly how an entire society can be whipped into a frenzy with pure scare tactics and a manipulation of sacred cultural symbols and beliefs. The events in this film can happen anywhere and do. Much of the hysteria over Communists that we see in "Canoa" is happening today in America over Muslims or illegal immigrants. Cazal's brilliantly captures how each stage of paranoia in the town leads to higher levels of suspicion and ultimately violence. He sets up the world of the film with pure realism, fully transporting us to the world of the characters. The cinematography is both arresting but gritty, scenes are nicely framed, but the images are of a decaying, rotting town where evil rules. The violence in "Canoa" is very real and very raw, Cazals has probably filmed one of the best sequences ever exploring the brutality of mob violence with shots and scenes that terrify in the way they capture human brings reduced to raving lunatics and bloodthirsty monsters. And of course Cazals does a great job capturing the Mexico of 1968 and the political debates and conflicts which were raging at the time. The youths themselves are not Leftists, or at least officially aligned with the student movement, but they can't escape the effect the movement is having on society. The film never feels like just a horror show in the spirit of 70s b-flicks because it does have a real political conscience. Cazals doesn't just blame the town's priest for what happened, but the entire Mexican system which viewed the students as a threat and programmed the citizenry to see them as such. "Canoa" deserves comparison to the best works of Costa Gavras and that other great Mexican film of the turbulent year of 1968, "Rojo Amanecer." This is an overlooked masterpiece that anyone interested in foreign cinema and political films should certainly take a look at. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2008 by Robert Blake

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