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Herod's Law (original Spanish title La ley de Herodes) is a 1999 Mexican satirical black comedy political film, directed by Luis Estrada and produced by Bandidos Films; it is a caricature of corruption in Mexico and the long-ruling PRI party (notably the first Mexican film to criticize the PRI explicitly by name, which caused some controversy ...
Feb 18, 2000 · Herod's Law: Directed by Luis Estrada. With Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Delia Casanova, Juan Carlos Colombo. A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power.
Herod's despotic rule has been demonstrated by many of his security measures aimed at suppressing the contempt his people, especially Jews, had towards him. For instance, it has been suggested that Herod used secret police to monitor and report the feelings of the general populace toward him.
Herod's Law. Juan Vargas is a simple man with unswerving loyalty to the party, and that is why he is chosen to be the mayor of San Pedro. There is an election coming up, three mayors have been killed in the last five years, and Lopez, the regional party leader, hopes Vargas can keep the lid on and not cause much trouble.
A naive man appointed as an acting mayor of a small town turns into a corrupt politician capable of anything to stay in power. After the corrupt former Mayor is killed by the peasants, poor janitor Juan Vargas is appointed new Mayor of a desert town in central Mexico.
Set around the period of 1940s, "Herod's Law" is a vintage satire of small town corruption. It also draws upon Shakespeare's "Macbeth" for a character driven by ambition to gain power and fortune, seizing on every opportunity for kickbacks in his position of mayor of the village.
It's the 1940s and Juan Vargas is just a minor member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who finds himself elected the mayor of a small village. But soon, Vargas has grown power-hungry and with the help of corrupt politician Lopez, Vargas tightens his grip and expands his sphere...
Jun 13, 2003 · A bracingly sarcastic political comedy -- it opens on a bound copy of Mexico's Constitution, stuffed with cash -- possessed of a baleful satiric eye for hypocrisy and greed, a delicious anti-clerical bent, and pitch-perfect comic timing. Read More. By John Patterson FULL REVIEW.
Dec 29, 1999 · Provocative, well-shot and vastly entertaining in its malice, “Herod’s Law” will surely do boffo business locally if and when it is commercially released. Political buzz has also earned it ...
Jun 13, 2003 · Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
