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.

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.

oscarjrdominguez Appreciating and preserving your roots and culture is a vital lesson portrayed in this movie. Director and writer Salvador Carrasco does a great job of letting the audience feel and visualize what it was like to be an Aztec native during the Spanish Conquest. While using historical facts and realistic details, Carrasco brings alive the Aztec culture and its true essence of spirituality, values, and traditions. The movie sheds light on a story that has been ignored in Mexico and the world. Carrasco shows that it is a story worthy of not forgetting and important to acknowledge, for it represents the foundation of Mexican culture. Having great success when it was first released, this movie has brought Latin/ Mexican film into the international movie industry. Not only does the movie show an important part of human history, but it has made history itself by breaking box office records and showcasing the potential of Latin film.

Heaven C La Otra Conquista is a very captivating film the audience follows the journey of Topilztin who is the son of Emperor of Moctezuma. Topiltzin is an Aztec Indian who experiences along with other Aztec Indians the invasion of the Spanish and them taking control of the Indians . Which sets the premises of the film because the audience is watching through the Aztecs perspective on how they were forced into converting to a different religion and change their way of living. The reason why this film is so incredible is because its giving the viewer an opportunity to see history in one perspective which is from the side of the Indians, its giving awareness that the Indians were treated inhumane based on the fact the Spanish viewed them as being inferior. This film really makes you think about humanity and how people can be treated horrific in the world and it can be over looked. An interesting aspect this film reveals, is how much a person will depend on religion to be their guidance. For instance, when the protagonist character Topiltzin is being forced to accept Catholicism he finds a love in the Statue of Virgin Mary but not because he made the decision to accept Catholicism its because he it so attach to his religion and the mother figure statues it has, that he is no longer able to distinguish between the two statues that symbolize a mother figure. In addition, La Otra Conquista is purely authentic the cinematography is shot at the actual monuments with a great amount of details, also the language Nahuatl is the main language spoken through the film along with Spanish. Anyone can see the director Salvador Carrasco put all his passion into creating this film and it is clearly shown through out the entire film.