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Wikipedia article




'Uno y medio contra el mundo' (English: "One and a Half Against the World") is a 1973 Mexican comedy drama film directed by Jos Estrada and starring Vicente Fernndez, Ofelia Medina and Roco Brambila.

Plot



Lauro (Fernndez) is a thief who, while escaping from one of his robberies, meets a boy named Chava (Brambila), who is as much of a rogue as he is. Upon arriving in Mexico City they decide to work and live together. They move to a barber shop where Chava begins teaching Lauro to read. After Lauro is apprehended for his crimes, and while visiting him in jail, Chava reveals that he is actually a female. Years later, after Lauro leaves prison, he meets the already adult Chava (Medina), and they decide to steal as before, with her disguised as a male. As time passes, they both fall in love and one day they kiss. However, a group of drunks see them, and due to Chava's disguise, confuses them for a homosexual couple, and they attack them violently, pummeling Lauro and stabbing Chava. The film ends with an injured Lauro carrying the already dead Chava in his arms as another child tried to join him. Lauro leaves, not wanting to expose another person to death once more.

Cast



*Vicente Fernndez as Lauro

*Ofelia Medina as adult Chava

*Roco Brambila as child Chava

*Mario Garca Gonzlez

*Jos Chvez (credited as Jos Chvez Trowe)

*Alfredo Gutirrez

*Ernesto Gmez Cruz

*Eduardo Lpez Rojas

*Yolanda Vzquez

*Federico Gonzlez

*Jorge Fegn

*Armando Acosta

*Juan Garza

*Lalo "El Mimo" (credited as Lalo de la Pea 'El Mimo')

*Alfredo Rosas

*Vicente Fernndez Jr. (credited as Vicente F. Abarca)

*Manuel Dond

*Felipe del Castillo

*Gustavo Negrete (credited as Gustavo del Castillo)

*Jess Gmez

Reception



In 'Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 19671983', Charles Ramrez Berg mentions the film together with 'El albail' ('The Bricklayer', 1975) and 'El Coyote y la Bronca' ('Coyote and Bronca', 1980) as examples of films of Vicente Fernndez in which "the Fernndez character is helped by women, and he is able to accept it without feeling that he is losing his manhood," because "For him, women are mysterious but unthreatening, so he treats them as equals, not as serfs."Ramrez Berg, p. 134 A review by 'Etctera' in 2019 considers the film Vicente Fernndez's "only worthwhile" film, "perhaps together" with 'El albail'.

Because of the film's ending, in which Ofelia Medina's character is stabbed for kissing Vicente Fernndez's character while she is dressed as a man, the film received notoriety after a controversy in which Fernndez claimed in 2019 that he refused to receive a liver transplant, after being diagnosed with cancer, in case the donor was homosexual. 'Etctera' review stated "46 years after that film, Vicente Fernndez himself still does not understand."

References



Bibliography



*Ramrez Berg, Charles. 'Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 19671983'. University of Texas Press, 2010.


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