Cada Minuto Cuenta

Although this series has its values i.e. Production, and the background history it ca be denied, also has its flaws. My principal objection is that it has not to be necessary to embelish the events with such a sloppy script. The real drama we live as Mexicans back in the day it would be just enough.

I personally work as a volunteer in rescue tasks for the University, as many other Mexicans that days, and we all know that there was no such a ridiculous story of a newspaper reporter such as portayed here. I guess that for a non Mexican audience this could be easily compared with some kind of US reconstruction or representation of the Nine-Eleven events, the heroism that many saw and lived that days, and in terms of cinematic adaptation, that's make sense, there are plenty of stories that show more or less the same behaviour. But for me, is an insult that the writers take such a liberty on the portrait of characters involved. Not all what happened in that day involved class media people. For the Mexico city size and the hour of the earthquake, early in the morning, many of the people involved belong to virtually all kind of social origin, not only those who lived in affected areas. Specially many female workers in Colonia Obrera, for example, was poor women, in a very popular sector of the city, away from residential zones. Tlatelolco itself was not at the time a very nice zone to live in, just to mention two zones and kind of people not portrayed with adequacy in the series.

I remeber I was at the school, far away from the epicenter, and I was in disbelief of what news report that morning. I guess new generation of audience, millenials, need to see what happended that day in a new light. But I don't. I lived every hour, I was involved in rescue tasks, almost one month, during the emergency on which Mexico city almost stop at all every activity not involved in rescue.

So, I recommend that if yo not live those days directly, avoid the series. As usual with almost any recent Mexican production (no matter if its from Apple, Netflix or any other streaming service), it's made of bad acting and a sloppy script, not to mention a poor camera work. Its so obvious that this new Mexican producvers and filmakers doesn't know how to make the camera lens work not only as a credible whitness but also as a narrator, framing and using creative solutions for the POV.

Yes, the story is mindblowing, but what we see in this series is kind of an open disregard for the people who lived and died that days in Mexico city. As a Mexican who lived that days in the flesh, this series insult my memory, and the memory of those who died.

Some subjects would be treated with more professionalism and for people who really understand the tragedy and the pain lived by those who really lived those days, and not only write and produce some show for selling tickets or views on streaming.