I Promise You Anarchy, by writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón, titillates equally with its queer sensuality and noirish crime, neither of which is entirely the point. In what plays like a modern take on The Godfather, queer sexual politics and Mexican machismo rasp upon each other, filing the young criminals at its heart into husks.
Miguel (Diego Calva Hernández), a big-fish-in-a-small-pond gangster, wears his racket around his neck. A necklace adorned with a set of plastic vampire teeth explains his blood-selling racket to corrupt paramedics while symbolizing a much darker thrall. Like any good local criminal, the youthful Miguel takes care of his own. From the skateboarders he rolls with to the old men who run the gay strip club in his area, everyone respects him.; people drop everything for him, and he knows who is worthy of his protection. His life is complicated by his relationship with Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) — not just romantically,...
Miguel (Diego Calva Hernández), a big-fish-in-a-small-pond gangster, wears his racket around his neck. A necklace adorned with a set of plastic vampire teeth explains his blood-selling racket to corrupt paramedics while symbolizing a much darker thrall. Like any good local criminal, the youthful Miguel takes care of his own. From the skateboarders he rolls with to the old men who run the gay strip club in his area, everyone respects him.; people drop everything for him, and he knows who is worthy of his protection. His life is complicated by his relationship with Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) — not just romantically,...
- 3/26/2016
- by Jacob Oller
- The Film Stage
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