Alicia I love this movie so much

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

anapineapple 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.

brittleake La Otra Conquista is the story of the great traumatism that has defined, influenced, and shaped everything that has happened in Mexico since then – the Spanish conquest and ensuing colonisation of Mexico that radically altered and transformed the entire country, leaving the indigenous survivors disoriented and powerless. I'll start with the negative aspects of the film. In my own opinion, the acting certainly left something to desire, and the special effects were practically risible, although I don't really begrudge the film too much on that point. This film was not made to be the splashiest movie to have ever been shown in theatres. It was a film made with an infinitesimally small budget, but you don't need a large budget to communicate a powerful message – and that is something to keep in mind while watching La Otra Conquista. La Otra Conquista beautifully explores the trauma of the arrival of the Spanish and how it turned the Aztec's world entirely upside down, leaving them directionless orphans wondering where everything had gone wrong and how they could pick up the pieces and keep going. The film's protagonist's story reflects that of his people – the trauma, pain, loss, and suffering after the arrival of the Spanish, and the slow recovery and rebuilding process afterwards. While he adapts himself to a new Europeanised world and mourns what he has lost, he doesn't become the mini-European that the Spanish would like him to be. His unique approach to his new religion – Christianity, shows not only how he and people like him adopted Christianity all while modifying it to make it more analogous to their previous religion, much to the horror of the puritanical Spanish. It also shows how Christianity became a powerful source of perseverance in the face of adversity and loss – a role that it continues to play even now – for many in Latin America whose world had been irrevocably shaken by the arrival of Europeans.

jia_kehan 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.

skyblue4eva 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.