The most searched Netflix movie on Google lasts just over 90 minutes and is as moving as it is unrepeatable

One has arrived on Netflix. new film by a certain Cuarón that is sweeping; logical, you will say, if the Mexican director has won four Oscars (A statuette for ‘Roma’ and ‘Gravity’). No what It’s not Alfonso, it’s his son, Jonás Cuarón, that at 31 he has already directed, with this, three feature films.

If you like 80’s adventure movies, or just the 80’s and 90’s movies that we have in our memory and that are full of nostalgia, ‘sucks’ It’s a movie you must see. Because it has a lot of that, of the Spielberg tapes for which we stood in line at the cinema.

It is a fun, simple movie, without complications or franchises (hopefully) for the whole family. You don’t need to be familiar with the chupacabra mexican legend to understand it, although to continue with the article we will say that it is a mythical creature resembling a winged coyote.

In ‘Sucks’, this creature He’s on the loose in the Mexican countryside and the US government has sent a most sinister official, Richard Quinn, (Christian Slater) to catch him. On the other hand, we meet 13-year-old Alex (Evan Whitten), who flies from Kansas to Mexico to visit some relatives he doesn’t know: his grandfather and former wrestling champion Chava (Demián Bichir); his cousin Memo de él (Nickolas Verdugo), a hyperactive kid obsessed with wrestling; and his intrepid, hip cousin Luna (Ashley Ciarra).

Álex has an identity problem, he doesn’t feel like he’s American or Mexican, and that’s when he meets the chupacabra creature, a real cutie who ends up winning his sympathy. To protect Chupa from danger, Alex embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, an odyssey that will test his newfound family ties and remind him that the ravages of life are more bearable when you don’t have to face them alone.

Now, let’s all do this riddle:

What movie does ‘Chupa’ look like? Sure, you guessed it: to ‘ET The Extra-Terrestrial’.

And this movie is like a ‘Spielberg light’ (let’s see, the magician Spielberg had was in his 30s when he made his best movies, We will give Cuarón Jr. a truce) in which, above all, Demián Bichir shines as the most emotional character in the film, capable of articulating both the gravity and lightness of the film.

In short, ‘Sucks’ It is that kind of sweet and serene movies that we have been missing in theaters for a long time. Cuarón goes back to his roots and talks in a very specific, almost science-fiction way about Mexican culture. However, it does not treat it locally or regionally; it is capable of opening up to the whole world and transmitting it as a broader phenomenon that reaches us all.

People needs larger-than-life figures to help them express feelings and longings that they would otherwise have a hard time putting into words. And ‘Chupa’ is, without a doubt, one of them. Please, do not invent franchises or sagas of this story, because they would break the charm.

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