“Recently , while visiting Mexico D.F. , I saw the movie: “For Greater Glory” (Cristiada), released on April 2012. I´m catholic, but that doesn´t mean that I have to support and applaud every movie based on a catholic theme. Maybe a movie can be a complete disaster or have weak plots, or as in this case: terrible casting election. The historical tragedies that the “Cristero War” had as result of religious persecution by a dictatorship on the years 1926 – 1929, can´t be treated with the same artistic techniques as in a “Batman” or “Godfather´s movie”. We are talking about a slaughter of thousands of innocent people who wanted to live in peace and express their religious points of views and life styles. Mexico is one of the most attacked countries when religion themes are revised on the human rights´ lens. There are testimonies, photos, historical documents, thousands of tombs of men, women, nuns, priests, complete families murdered, and also are families of survivors that can narrate all the aggressions they had to struggle when the Masons wanted to conquer Mexico and South America.
The “Cristero War” is the example of what can happen when Dictators oppress civilians, when Democracy is whipped out of the Constitution of a country, when international interests are not people, but land and their natural resources. This is the segment that you don’t find in World History School Books, and you have to take that extra mile to search, investigate sources of the publishers and countries that include or exclude important facts that could help our youngsters improve their comprehension about the importance of heritage and life values. Maybe the theme has been very attractive for movie investors, but on this film, the actors are trying to stay in their Hollywood Star Systems´ rank, forgetting that the screenplay is not based on fiction or glamorous character´s appearances, but instead is a colossal tragedy that should never repeat itself again in mankind´s history. I highly recommend, after seeing the movie, to search for information about what was the “Cristero War”, who was Dictator “Plutarco Elias Calles” and how do each historical character represented in the film, really looked like in real life.”