Los Dioses Rotos - film by Ernesto
Daranas, 2009
Saturday February 5th at 9:00 pm
Laura (35 years old) is a university professor who is
preparing her masters thesis on a famous Cuban
procurer, Alberto Yarini and Ponce de León, who was
assassinated by gunfire by his french enemies, who
controlled the prostitution business in Havana in the
turn of the Century. Interested in unveiling the
current validity of this legendary character, in her
sociological research she discovers a captivating
event: In one of Havana's cult houses exists a piece
of clothing that has almost religious importance
attached to it. It is the handkerchief used by Elena
Morales -one of Yarini's prostitutes- to stop the
bleeding of his pimp that November afternoon in
1910, when the french gun him down to death.
Laura finds in this revelation important historical
value, and with all the morbid fascination that a
good stroke research must have, she sets out to
make a comparative study between the DNA in the
dry blood on the handkerchief and that of Yanini's
remains, to prove or deny the story built around this
relic.
On the other hand, Alberto and Sandra (24 years
old) talk about youth marked by its social
environment. She has just been released from jail;
he has just arrived from Paris in the dawn of his
career as a gigolo. Regardless of their desire to cut
tides with their pasts, the love they feel for each
other unites them beyond their own interest. After
two years of distance, when their lives are meeting
again, Rosendo (40 years old), a feared procurer,
owner of Yanini's handkerchief, becomes an
insurmountable obstacle between them. Right in the
middle of this confrontation is Laura, driven by her
obsession on a story that has no relevance for the
rest, finds that the dark world in which she has step
in will turn against her.
Beyond its anecdote, The Crazy Godsis a story of
confronted values; a reflection on the ethics and
morality of a group of characters from different
social spheres, to whom the concepts of "right" or
"wrong" are not applicable. Social drama, suspense
and melodrama are combined in a story that wants
to be entertaining, universal and consequent with
the reality that it belongs to.