The pivotal character is Sargento Collazo (Damián Alcázar). We come to know each quite well, through good scripting, good acting and portrait-like camera-work that captures each character at close range throughout the movie. The principal story told here concerns three soldiers and two women, both prostitutes. Vuelta also means 'revolution' (e.g., the revolutions of an electric fan) a pun may be intended here, a reference to the fact that conditions and events in this film foreshadow the Mexican Revolution that would begin 7 years later. Vuelta (turn) refers here to visits to the local pulqueria to down a few pints of the peasants' drink, pulque, and trade stories. capital, and engendering even greater poverty in a land already suffering from gross imbalance in the distribution of wealth. Diaz accomplished these things at the terrible cost of slaughtering his opponents, making Mexico financially more dependent upon U.S. Period film gorgeously photographed with deeply etched characters and conflicts, set within a larger context of socio-political developments in pre-revolutionary Mexico, in 1903, the 19th year of the repressive regime of Porfirio Diaz, who had through colossal will and brutal force transformed the economy, built a national railroad system, and suppressed the civil chaos that had ruined Mexico for decades.
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