Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano

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"Positive: Music and choreography are superb. Negative: The documentary creates (makes-up) a new, sanitized, version of history, in which Spaniards are the "saviors" from the "uncivilized" Aztecs. The relationship between Malinche and Cortés is staged as one of love and romance. Nothing more away from the historical facts evidenced in the chronicles from Europeans and research from scholars in the field. Malinche was his slave and their relationship was transactional. When he had enough of using her as a translator, Cortés forced her to marry, as she was his property, one o..."