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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

La Otra Conquista is a good film to watch particularly if one is interested in 1. Mexica people and their culture, and 2. the colonization process of normalizing the Mexicas in ways that dehumanize them by destroying their culture and them.This movie is a good movie to kind of know the language of the Mexica, Nahuatl. We hear this language throughout the film. We also get to kind of see some of their religion, but there is no elaboration it. This is one of the few movies that shows the downfall of the Mexica, through the perspective of one man, Topiltzin.One hears of how indigenous people are suffering and one does not know why or how it even started. One hears of colonization, studies it for a bit and goes on in life. This movie gives a good representation of one indigenous group, the Mexicas. Now everyone knows how the Mexicas were conquered, but not everyone knows exactly how they were conquered. This movie shows that the colonizing process was very traumatizing for the Mexica. The Spanish came through, ravaged their land and women. They destroyed buildings and idols, but for what exactly? This can be described as a physical type of torment as well as beatings, tortures and killings of their own people. The Spanish wanted their gold and at the same time God had sent the Spanish to help these poor savages. So, the Spanish did all they could to replace their gods with God. They destroyed, but to no avail, not unless they beat them down spiritually and mentally.This movie shows a few of the atrocities that the Spanish did to the Mexicas. It shows them degrading them and making them stop speaking Nahuatl. They normalize them into Spanish society, by making them wear Spanish clothing, speaking Spanish, at times eating Spanish food, keeping them away from other indigenous people, and their homeland. In conclusion, I recommend this movie to anyone that wants to know more about the colonization of indigenous people. I do not say Mexicas, because this is what has happened to the rest of the indigenous groups in all of the Americas. This film alone is a small introduction to only one group of Indigenous groups that has been colonized for a greater good.

What's the best way for better understand a complex history? If you are lucky, you can find a movie which about the history you are studying. The movie La Otra Conquista is the best choose for anyone who are interested in the history of North America.This movie intuitive described lot of bloody scenes, for example, in this movie, the open scene is the great temple Massacre Introduces the protagonist in 1520 the extinction of aggression that Spanish Empire did to Mexico, then Mexico was conquered by Spanish. By the main theme "human can be destroyed but not defeated" to perspective the religious. One of the impressive scenes was Diego admitted how Topiltzin's felt for the religion. Another one was the scene when Diego called the Mother Goddess statue. Both of these scenes in this movie emphasis that both Virgin Mary and Mother Goddess are the keys of these two religion, but in the end, they both give up something for salvation and accepted each other's religion by accepting their religious goddesses.

Salvador Carrasco's "La Otra Conquista" is truly a phenomenal, one-of-a-kind film. From the opening scene, we immediately are confronted with the films underlying message, the loss of identity. Instead of having a flag as the object of worship, Carrasco's choice to have the fully dimensional Virgin Mary allowed me to interpret her as another character. This film accurately addresses the oppression of a culture. I felt that Carrasco did a great job at maintaining an even playing field—a biased film this is not. An incredibly profound and hard-hitting quote occurs when Tomaś says, "I don't adapt. I know who I am." That eight word sentence embodies "The Other Conquest." Tomaś's inner struggle is to hold on to what the people around him are stripping from him. The story of Tomaś is a full-fledged tragedy. It is certainly clear that Carrasco desires to remain invisible as a filmmaker in order to portray the important message that the film has to offer. Another theme that seemed quite prominent was the "loss of mother," both figuratively and literally. In the opening scene, it is discovered that Tomaś's mother has been killed. The historical event refers to May 19, 1520, "The Great Temple Massacre". Tomaś soon after looks to the Virgin Mary as motherly figure as he is being whipped with chains and burnt in the company of his own people. Throughout the movie, as he is molded and converted from an Aztec Prince into a Spanish and Christian way of life, as his conquerors continue to strip away at his beliefs and identity, the one thing that he lives for is that Virgin Mary. He still holds on to it. Overall, the film is direct and very clear in message, and it had a positive effect on me.

Salvador Carrasco deliberately shows two different types of conquests in the film "The Other Conquest," through real occurrences with a fictitious protagonist. The film sets on May 1520, one year after Spanish conquerer Hernan Cortes has occupied the Mexico. The massacre in the Main Temple of the Aztecs has occurred and Aztec Indians are either killed or subjugated by Spaniards. Topiltzin, the protagonist, could save his life because he is the son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, but is forced to convert his beliefs and religion. Carrasco emphasizes the torment of this physical conquest by showing graphic violence in scenes like the opening scene - the massacre, human sacrifice and Topiltzin's feet getting burned with a torch.The second type is the spiritual conquest. Even though, Topiltzin is physically conquered and even renamed Thomas, his mind remains unreachable. In the human sacrifice scene, it is well described how one's strong mind and will cannot be restrained by physical means. Topiltzin gets confused between his beliefs and Christianity, but eventually sees his Mother Goddess in the Virgin Mary statue. He maintains his belief and conquers her in spiritual way and abandons his physical body.Implicative shots are interesting and also the use of light throughout the film. There are many shots with red or blue color lightings which gives the sense of surreal - which connote spiritual, religious meanings.