Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

jaimemacias23 This film was a perfect example of how life could've been when the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs. Hardly any directors of recording artists have gotten into this topic or group. I doubt that they ever will because this topic doesn't really interest anybody, only the Mexicans and the descendants. The film goes into depth on how the Spaniards conquered our land and just slaughtered our race. They slaughtered our race so they can get our people to believe in a new faith, The virgin Mary. The Aztecs didn't want to stop making sacrifices, and didn't want to stop talking to their gods. The Spaniards considered them as dehumanized creatures and i agree because people have to have logic in order to survive. I recommend this film to those who are interested in the Mexican culture.

zumpano_elisa_c The Other Conquest is a Mexican masterpiece by the director Salvador Carrasco, who I had the pleasure to take film classes from. It was the first Mexican film to be released by an American film company being this one Fox 21st century. Despite all the difficulties to make the movie and the strong opposition by the government-sponsored film institute in Mexico the film was well made and for the surprise of everyone it broke box office records. The story is set in 1520 when the Spaniards, under the command of Hernando Cortes, arrive in the Aztec Empire to conquer. As Carrasco wrote in a essay called The Invisible Sight: "It was my hope in making 'The Other Conquest' to do just that: To shed new light on old events, which have come to seem so familiar that we are deceived into mistaking familiarity for clarity."The only survivor of the Great Temple massacre, which is the opening scene of the film, is Topiltzin, son of the Emperor Monctezuma, who, as the story goes by, is tried to be converted to Spanish Christianism by a Franciscan Priest, Friar Diego de La Coruna. His life is only spared because his sister, Tecuichpo, is serving as interpreter and mistress of Cortes. He has his name changed from Topiltzin to Tomas and is brought to the Franciscan Monestary of Our Lady of Light to try to be converted, a term known in psychology by a type of coercion called brainwashing: forced attitude change with the victim being kept captive. When Topiltzin sees his mother dead on the beginning of the film, it is kind of a metaphor for orphanage: he only not just loose his mother, but his culture, language and beliefs. The Virgin Mary being represented as a statue instead of a flat is a creative adaptation to make her more like a character. There are two moments in the movie that some filmmakers and critics understand as magical realism, one of them is when the statue of Virgin Mary drops a tear when Topitlzin is being whipped. However, no character reacts to it so it is more like a commentary to suggests what she feels about what they are doing on her name. Based on the fact that the image of the Virgin Mary in Mexico is the dark skin Virgin Guadalupe and the image brought from Europe by Hernando Cortes was the blonde Virgin of Rosario sets the title of the film showing us that the Aztecs did not disappear and raise the question "Who is conquering who?"The direction, production design and the performance of the actors are amazing. It do not let you take your eyes away from the screen even for one second.

jmholt1984 The Other Conquest brings the audience into a history of that has barely been viewed before. To see the truth that has been hiding behind the curtain of propaganda and historical reality gives the audience a true insight into the lives and struggles upbringing of the Mexico nation. Beginning the film with the aftermath of the horrendous slaughter was an eye opening and gut wrenching glimpse to the start of Topiltzin's story. The audience comes into realization of the fact that the Spanish unfairly conquered Aztecs similar to the British conquering the native Americans. The religious aspect covered in the film was an eye-opening display of forced beliefs. Reflecting on that, I have a certain belief system and if someone tried forcing another belief would be catastrophic to my family and my entire religious community. Topiltzin is ultimately destroyed by the conflicting belief system that he is forced to embrace.

clairetianqihou In the film "the other conquest , we can clearly understood what is love and what is belief. Also this film can let you understood the history of North American. Most people may consider that this film is talking about religion, but I don't think that is the subject of this film. I think the Virgin's of Gualalupe is just a symbol, she doesn't belong to any religion, When the main character loves the photo, that show us that the main character not feel along , because the photo is his belief---- about his family and his home town.Also this movie described lot of bloody scenes, such as, at the beginning of this open sense 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. I am a international student, this film can make me understand North American history . I will bring this film to china , to let more people to know it .