Looking at the
trailer, I must say that it does in some ways come accross as something of a hispanic "Birth of a Nation". On one side you have white racist baby killers, and on the other side you have a paramilitary who takes the law into his own hands and kills them.
For those of you who aren't too familair with American history, "Birth of a Nation" was an ultra racist silent film made in 1915. In the film black people were portrayed as evil pillagers and killers of white men, women, and children, so the Ku Klux Klan, a white, anti minority, paramilitary organization comes in and kills the black people, rescuing whites (like I said, it was racist). The movie was largely responsible for a major revival of the KKK as more than a million white men flocked to it, drastically incresing its numbers and power, and it was able to terrorize minority communities across the country until the civil rights era 50 years later.
The point is, with the massive disenfranchisement from the political system, 20% unemployment, and with
various antics illegal immigrants have been
pulling in recent weeks, a film like machete will just pour gasoline on the fire.
