La Ley de Herodes

Doesn't matter if we understand politics or not, we can't ignore it. We are all taught in schools that Corruption is bad but later this corruption becomes our reality. We move on by complaining against corruption or accepting it. But here we have an option to sit back and enjoy the satirical comedy of this Mexican film "La Ley de Herodes".

Somewhere around 1940s in an interior village of Mexico, Juan Vargas (played by Damián Alcázar) an innocent & well behaved janitor of PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional- a political party of Mexico) was elected as a mayor to bring development & justice to the people of this village. Now begins the main politics where director Luis Estrada portrays how the system of corruption can change a normal person to a beast.

None other than Damián Alcázar can bring the character of this newly elected mayor so much real & entertaining to the audience. The story unfolds how this man transforms into a gruesome person & he himself becomes the law of society.

People from any part of the world can relate to the basic corrupted culture of politics that has been shown in this movie as no country exists without corruption. Even the sense of humor used to criticize the then ruling party of Mexico (PRI) is stupendous. Here in one interesting conversation, Eduardo López Rozas who plays the character of a doctor, asks an american "Do you think democracy is the solution of Mexico?".

To know the funny & satirical response watch the trailer below:

A MUST WATCH!!!

Serial

With the advancement of technology & rapid changing life style, we are bombarded constantly with Television commercials, apps, news articles, social media etc. The only thing that remains stationary & existent is THE RADIO. Since its invention in 19th century, it has traveled through different time  and finally reaches our generation with the tradition of various programs including music, drama, stories, news etc. 

Recently I found out on the internet about this widely popular american radio podcast 'SERIAL' where a 15 year old homicide case was reopened for discussion by Sarah Koenig through broadcast on radio with different episodes. At first I thought of streaming the first episode & while listening to it, I couldn't stop downloading the rest of the 11 episodes ( I wish it could have continued more and more and more).

   

It's a real incident about an accused man of South Asian origin named Adnan Syed, born and brought up in America, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, when they were both teenagers studying in school in the year 1999. Now he is serving a life sentence in US. 

Well it's normal that an accused person who is guilty of taking life of another human being should deserve punishment. But what happens if he is convicted for lifetime based on some unclear facts & countless lies from the witnesses?  

Whether Adnan is guilty or not is the secondary issue because he is already serving life imprisonment for 16 years whereas the primary issue is based on what genuine facts he is convicted.

To know more about what happened on 13th January 1999, start streaming or downloading the episode 1 by clicking the link below where Sarah Koenig unfolds the mystery of this incident by having direct conversation with the accused Adnan Syed over the phone in prison and other witnesses.

http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi