La mitad del mundo (2009)
Release Year: 2009
Nation: Mexico
Alternative Title: N/A
Director: Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez
Writer: Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: Roberto Fiesco, Érika Ávila, Armando Casas
Companies: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, UNAM, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)
Budget: N/A
Awards & Similar
Awards:
Similar: N/A
Keywords
Keywords: adult son lives with his mother, cheating wife, doggystyle sex, erection visible through clothing, female full frontal nudity, grown son gives mother a bath, latin america, lounging in a hammock, male rear nudity, man burned alive, mature woman seduces younger man, mature woman younger man sex, mother gives grown son a bath, mother son relationship, nipples visible through wet cloth, sex with an intellectually disabled person, sex with blindfolded man, small town life, wife pregnant by another man, young male sexual awakening
Story
The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.
Summary
In "Half of the World," a young man named Mingo grapples with both mental disability and sexual awakening. Charismatic and perceptive, he notices life's insignificant details others miss. As his popularity grows as a lover, so do problems that expose the town's prejudice and moral hypocrisy, ultimately challenging their false virtues.
