{"id":10942,"date":"2015-07-25T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giff.mx\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2015-07-25T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:02:31","slug":"critic-the-beginning-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/critic-the-beginning-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic: The Beginning of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dir. Bernardo Arellano<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official Selection Feature Mexico<\/p>\n

\"tiempo2\"<\/a>The Richter Scale says<\/strong>: Who can one count on? Whenever you need something, who is the person that\u2019s always there to help? Can you count on family? We would like to think so, but eventually family members make their own lives and you\u2019re never sure you can count on them forever. Can you trust the government? Anyone who lives in Mexico nowadays will tell you the answer to that is a big negative. Just ask To\u00f1o and Bertha, an elderly couple who are victims of the latest government shenanigans and they need to suspend pensions in order to solve them. To\u00f1o and Bertha are old and counted on those pensions to keep on living. Without them, what will they do? How will they get food and medicines?<\/p>\n

They try selling tamales and anything they can sell from their house (which, given that most of their possessions are old, most people don\u2019t want them) until one day, by chance, a man and his adult son stop to ask for directions and it turns out to be Jon\u00e1s, To\u00f1o and Bertha\u2019s long-gone son, along with their grandson Paco, who had never met them. Jon\u00e1s and Paco move in with the elderly couple and take care of them. Now they have a chance to get to know their grandson. It\u2019s a peculiar structure for a movie, since the main conflict is resolved quickly and once it is, it becomes the story of a family reunion and it\u2019s a bit of a shame to think what more could have been done with the initial premise.<\/p>\n

\"Tiempo\"<\/a>Still, within the movie we end up with, the chemistry between our characters is just right and even though it abandons the conflict among these characters, it\u2019s still a critique of government and how little it cares about people. In the end it\u2019s about making a connection with the people who need you the most and, as is common with stories about the elderly, it\u2019s about growing old, seeing time pass, seeing how things have changed and enjoying the wisdom one has as an advantage over younger people. It celebrates what the elderly can offer and how much love can last, even toward someone who hadn\u2019t net you.<\/p>\n

This film screens at 4:00 pm at the Auditorium of the University of Guanajuato.<\/p>\n

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Dir. Bernardo Arellano Official Selection Feature Mexico The Richter Scale says: Who can one count on? Whenever you need something, who is the person that\u2019s always there to help? Can you count on family? We would like to think so, but eventually family members make their own lives and you\u2019re never sure you can count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}