Synopsis
La dictadura perfecta (The Perfect Dictatorship, 2014) is a razor-sharp Mexican political satire from director Luis Estrada — watch it online on iFILM. Mexico's most powerful television network exposes Governor Carmelo Vargas in a corruption scandal. Facing ruin, Vargas doesn't call a lawyer. He walks into the network's boardroom with a bag of money.
Ambitious young producer Carlos Rojo and veteran on-air journalist Ricardo Díaz are handed the job: turn a demonstrably crooked politician into a presidential frontrunner. The machine gets to work — staged press events, crisis management, round-the-clock image rehab. Damián Alcázar plays Vargas with a reptilian calm, while Alfonso Herrera captures the slow moral erosion of a man who tells himself it's just television.
Estrada, who spent the 1990s making films about institutionalised corruption in Mexico, turned his sharpest lens here on the media that enables it. At 143 minutes it's unhurried — but that patience makes the punchline land harder. Stream La dictadura perfecta (2014) online on iFILM.
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