Anyone who has yet to see this film must! Whilst watching the film one must look at it in the context of it only having cost $7000. Rodriguez, a self taught master of the director's craft, who lacked the prerequisites to qualify for film school, decided to work his way into Hollywood on his own hand. The result is a masterpiece. Okay, so there are a number of repetitions evident in the film, he re-uses certain concepts over and over again in a bid to save money, but if one contextualises the situation then the true value of the film can be appreciated to a greater extent than just an appreciation of the plot. This man deservedly broke into Hollywood and has contradicted himself in that he now a mainstream filmmaker, a concept that he openly criticised just a few years ago.
Review of El Mariachi
