Ruizpalacios Cinema As A Window Analysis

To describe a film as a piece of “cinema as a window”, it suggests that this piece is bound- not bound by traditional storytelling conventions but rather by time, by space, by fate. However, this window is also transparent, the deep scope of its view determined by an ever changing arena of storytelling. This cinema differs from conventional cinema in its organic and episodic bursts of plot, lack of visual continuity, and deliberately vague grasp of cause and effect. Gueros, a film by Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, is a piece of cinema as a window, Ruizpalacios as a master of the storytelling techniques necessary to distinguish it as so.
From the very beginning of Gueros, the disorderly and delirious tone of this film is set by the startling …show more content…
This party directs the film’s conversation to larger themes of race, class, and art. This digression is marked by the scene that takes place when Ana pushes Sombra into a fountain, causing a youthful and contextually inappropriate water fight between the four companions. Ruizpalacios returns here to the deliriously romantic tone of the film, using long takes and quick cuts to provide an element of fantasy and make believe.
After jerking the protagonists through several more obstacles- bricks flying through windows, Sombra facing his anxiety, finding out that Cruz hasn’t been to the zoo in days- Ruizpalacios puts the gueros face to face with their final destination, a dying Epigmenio Cruz sitting alone in a bar. As the story approaches its seeming climax- Tomas and Sombra approach their hero and ask him for an autograph- it becomes clear that the end of their tireless journey to find him has come to a disappointing close, and Cruz was not the hero that either brother thought he would