2014 · comedy · political · satire
The Perfect Dictatorship
Directed by Luis Estrada2h 23m2014
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
Our read: The Perfect Dictatorship (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · political · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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