Mala noche

Techniques

Extreme close ups, fast track accounts of what happened told by main actor in the way it switches to first person narrative

Mala noche pretty bold covering of homosexual sex although not covered too intensely it featured a bedroom scene that suggested and said enough even by todays standards, the shots of extreme close ups of hands as well as the darkness and close up of face shots, getting the vaseline from the bathroom, being turned around and asking roberto to slow down, the scene with the camera with the. Switching of styles and going into colour to emphasize the use of recording on another cam.

The diary entries in the dark where it is like Walt is talking to a psychiatrist

The movie in itself is political in the way Mexican immigrants were treated and also highlighting the liberation of being gay, showing a gay mans desires for another