Gael García Bernal is talking about Donald Trump , but he has a good understanding than most of us . The 37 - year - oldMozart in the Jungleactor is one of the big superstar to emerge from Mexico , a mark of the presidential candidate . His newfangled thriller , Desierto , is about a warring American gunning down illegal mete - cover immigrants . And like many , Trump ’s leave him totally downcast . The country he experience is a het up talk point .
" He ’s obsessed , " he say about Trump ’s family relationship to Mexico . " There ’s nothing more sour than the United States being a dupe of the worldly concern , or being a dupe of Mexico . It ’s constructed on lie completely , and the whole mankind mocks that – but at the same clock time , we ’re really distressed about what the screw is going to happen . "
InDesierto , the debut feature from Jonás Cuarón ( son ofGravitydirector Alfonso Cuarón ) , Bernal ’s political anxiousness becomes a experience nightmare . The actor play Moises , a Mexican migrant worker making the trek across the US border to reunify with his married woman and daughter . Standing in his mode is Sam ( The Walking Dead ’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) , a whisky - sip , gun - wielding American psychotic with a vendetta against his neighbor to the due south . When Moises and his fellow travelers enter Sam ’s crosshairs , the hunting watch starts pick them off one by one . It ’s " The Most serious Game " with a seasonable ( and direful ) pull .
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Bernal describes the celluloid as a " very wry action movie , " and he ’s not just blab out about the coarse desert conditions it was filmed under . Cuarón make suspense and tautness with scale , Bernal dash under the conspicuous - raging sun , sprinting through bleak panorama , and hiding behind giant careen . At one point , to get away a bloody-minded frankfurter , he crawls through a patch of cacti . You ’ll check your socks for sand when you leave the theater .
An accent on the tactile allows the film ’s ideas to simmer and bake under the desert sun . Where many films would attempt to psychologize Dean Morgan ’s sniper character by give him a tortured backstory or a belabored justification for his evil natural process , Desiertorefuses to provide pat , easy answers . ( In fact , the motion-picture show ’s Mexican distributors used fan reaction like " I ’m rout for the Orcinus orca " in a disturbingtrailer . ) " It ’s the nature of monsters , " say Bernal . " Nothing justifies any of it . So there ’s something quite perverse about saying we take a justification . "
Though the motion picture was made well before Trump was the Republican candidate and his wall - building marriage proposal became common talking full stop , Bernal sees connections between the film and the current political climate . In the same style he does n’t think there ’s exoneration for the villain ’s action in the film , he fails to see how anyone could vote for Trump in good conscience . ( Though he ’s nimble to admit he ’s never met anyone who plans to vote for Trump . )
" I opine anyone that can give a rational explanation for why they ’re voting for Donald Trump is a someone that definitely does n’t exist , " he say . " It ’s a very worked up vote . It ’s a very irrational vote . The world is brokenhearted and some hoi polloi are solve it through empathy and through a signified of coarse goodness , and some others are oppose to that brokenheartedness by creating resentment . "
But , hardly a company politico , he ’s not just frustrated by Trump : he does n’t understand why popular candidates in the US also criminalize the people take a crap the same journey his character makes in the film . He ’s see red by the way Trump’sstatementsabout Mexicans being " criminals , drug dealers , rapists , etc . " have dictated the conversation . Obviously , he hope thatDesierto , in its own small and scrappy fashion , can help shift the area ’s focussing back on the human struggles of the migratory actor trapped in this political stalemate .
" The Democrats are uncoerced to remain silent in many path , " he explains . " And that just blows my creative thinker because then the narrative is established : it ’s allowed to say that migrant are really bad and everybody sort of believes that . So , it ’s fucked up . "
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With the theory of a Trump presidency lingering in the future tense , does he have any Leslie Townes Hope that Trump will fall behind and his proposals will become a affair of the past ? " There ’s a minuscule piece of promise out there , " he says . " There might be a chance . "
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