La mitad del mundo (2009)
Release Year: 2009
Nation: Mexico
Alternative Title: N/A
Director: Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez
Writer: Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez
Production & Genre
Producer: N/A
Companies: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, UNAM, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)
Budget: N/A
Awards & Similar
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Story
The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.
Summary
In "Half of the World," a young man named Mingo grapples with both mental disability and sexual awakening. Charismatic and perceptive, he notices life's insignificant details others miss. As his popularity grows as a lover, so do problems that expose the town's prejudice and moral hypocrisy, ultimately challenging their false virtues.
