The second feature from writer-director David Zonana ('Workforce') was produced by fellow Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco ('New Order,' 'Sundown').
, portrays the relentless system of abuse, torture and violence that new army recruits go through while attending Mexico’s own version of West Point, which is ironically called the Heroic Military College.
Despite such a name, there are hardly any heroics on display in this cruel story of oppressed youth, and barely any developed characters. There are just the abused and the abusers, who face off in a series of increasingly unsettling confrontations that play out like the first half of Stanley Kubrick’sextended into a full movie. It’s a grim affair indeed, and one that feels close to the work of fellow Mexican director Michel Franco , credited here as producer.
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