Collateral Damage: In Mexico, a dividing line on 'El Infierno'

A Mexican film on the drug war provokes reactions of catharsis and criticism.

In Mexico, a dividing line on 'El Infierno' - latimes.com: "Its citizens have made Luis Estrada's 'El Infierno' a blockbuster. But the film, which gives a bleak view of the country's raging drug war, has angered government officials. 

'I'm trying to invite Mexicans to a collective reflection,' Estrada said. 'I don't know how many people get that. But you do get the impression that the movie moves something in people, that it makes them think, it makes them reassess the state of things.... It's a mirror in which you don't like the image you see. But it does provoke a catharsis.'" Oct. 3, 2010