Her name was Malinche and she was sold into slavery by her own family. And then some cacique, the leader of a small tribe, presented it as an expensive gift to the conquistador Hernando Cortes.
She was 20 years old. She hated her people, who doomed her to slavery, and helped the conquerors.
Malinche was the cause of the rapid fall of empires and the shame of the indigenous South American peoples.
A traitor, given to a man by someone else’s will and giving him his homeland according to her own … But it was she, who gave birth to a son to Cortes, who laid the foundation for the Mexican race — a special, bronze, mestizo. The Mexicans call the Malinche with contempt «la chingada» (object of sexual acts), but they themselves are not without pride — «children of la chingada.» «Long live Mexico, long live the children of La Chingada!» they chant on Independence Day in Mexico City’s Zocalo…
All this is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and calls «love bitch». A lively, hot and combustible mixture of shame, love, contempt, gratitude, violence, betrayal, affection, obligations, losses. Everything that has become the trademark and theme of Iñárritu. From his first world-famous film — from «Bitches of Love». A film that explained Mexico to the world more fully, in more detail and more sensually than the great Mexican prose, than Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes themselves. The heroes of Iñárritu are the very children of La Chingada. They easily find a common language with ferocious fighting dogs and seek understanding. They do not spare enemies and wait for love. Shedding blood and waiting for forgiveness. They do not know mercy and fear damnation. They have everything at the limit — both passion and hatred.
Iñárritu’s characters, whether they be Mexicans, as in Love Bitch, Americans, as in 21 Grams, or Moroccans and Japanese, as in his new film Babylon, experience what you wouldn’t wish on your enemy. Death of children and loved ones. The cardinal sin of killing someone’s children and loved ones. Revenge. Rage. Fear for loved ones. Fatal accidents. Perfect, like dying loneliness … But they survive and survive. Everyone is connected, everything is connected in this beautiful and furious world. “When one link in a chain breaks, the whole chain is broken,” says Iñárritu.
… On the other side of the pampas, the phlegmatic, refined Borges is always waiting for you. According to this — desperate, saturated with the sweat of life Iñárritu. And his pandemonium film with the telling title «Babylon».
«BABYLON» CAST: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal and others.