Source: The Huffington Post
By Miles Mogulescu
Entertainment attorney, writer, and political activist
Robert Rodriguez–like his good buddy and frequent collaborator Quentin Tarentino–sure loves his pulp fiction fiction and his B-movies. In a both an homage to, and hilarious send-up of, ’70’s B movies, there are more limbs severed and blood splattered in “Machete” than in the best of Sam Peckinpah. If you’re not generally a fan of movie violence, don’t let that scare you away. This is brilliant satire, my friend, and the violence is cartoon-like, no scarier than your average Saturday morning kids show. In fact lots of it’s hilariously funny. It makes for a wild ride, one of the most purely entertaining movies to come along in quite a while. Go see “Machete” both for its love of filmmaking and for its timely take on immigration along the border.
Rodriguez also loves his Hispanic brothers and sisters, whether legal or illegal (particularly the sisters played by the strong and sexy Michelle Rodriguez (no relation) and Jessica Alba). I can’t remember a recent movie that shows so much respect for the men and women who work hard to build our houses, tend our gardens, wash our dishes, and take care of our children. It’s appropriate that this film opened on Labor Day weekend.
Despite a few right-wing bloggers like Andrew Breitbart warning that “Machete” will encourage race war, this doesn’t mean Rodriguez has anything against white people–just against the kind of white people like a hypocritical right-wing politician (Robert De Niro) who calls immigrants “cockroaches” while secretly taking money from wealthy businessmen who want to keep down labor costs and from a Mexican drug lord (Steven Seagal) who wants to control traffic across the border.
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