Mexican cinema nowadays (and ever)

Cinema was invented more than a century ago at the capital of the culture by the Lumiere brothers, the idea of a having a live image (motion picture) amazed millions and it became an instant hit, this fabulous new invention arrived to America almost a year after it debuted in Europe. Mexico was the first country of the occidental world to recieve the cinema, and Porfirio Diaz was the first mexican ever to watch a movie for the first time.

         More than a hundred years have passed, and the invection of the motion picture has evolve to what it is today, one of the biggest industries worldwide, but a movie its way more than a motion picture, more than a buisness, its even more than just entertainment, a movie is the only human way to control and manipulate time and space, an oportunity to create, innovate, inspire and even educate, no for nothing it is called the seventh art.

         It looks like in Mexico millions lack of cinema culture, it only a few mexican films manage to appear at the mainstreams movie theaters, and most of these films are bad production, in a cheap soap opera format with the only porpuse of making money, it seems that we do not have quality movies.

         But we do, we absolutly certainly do, if we take a look at the best movie festivals most of the times a mexican movie is being proyected and winning an award. Even though cinema has no barriers the fact that we have different countries its the reason why movies around the world are so different, thats one of the things i love the most about them.

                Why would you eat trash when you have a stake?, why would you whatch a crappy action movie when you have The Salt of the Earth?, if you are gonna spend 2 hours of your life sitting motionless in a chair, make it work it, because the only the thing better than movies, is life itself.