As if I had hit you or hurt you

By Sofía Guadarrama

In recent decades, Mexican cinema has gone through a crisis of bad productions, decadent scripts, ridiculous characters and children's stories, when they should be for adults.

I don't judge them. It is a complicated industry with very high investments and very low revenues. This is because the vast majority of the Mexican public prefers to see comedy and films that don't make them think. To the public what they ask for. For the same reason, Mexican producers, as well as movie theaters and streaming platforms have opted to invest in low-cost and safe productions in terms of content.

Un actor malo, by Jorge Cuchí, does not fit into this type of film. It is a risky production. Too risky in a country with a high rate of indifference to sexual abuse, femicides and kidnappings of women. In Mexico 97.5% of sexual abuse cases are not reported, much less investigated. Of the 2.5% of cases that are reported, only 5% are sentenced.

According to Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), "every hour an average of three to four cases of sexual abuse and/or rape are reported in Mexico, that is, 90 cases a day. For a year, the team of journalists from Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) was dedicated to obtain and analyze the figures of sexual crimes registered throughout the country and found that in a decade about 330,000 sexual crimes were reported in Mexico (an average of 33,000 per year). If this figure is divided by day, it means that in the whole country 90 cases of sexual violence are reported daily".