Germans Love David Hasselhoff - The film was much better received outside Mexico at first, though censorship might have had more to do with it than the public.
Moral Event Horizon: If El Jaibo didn’t cross it when he beat up Don Carmelo, then he crossed it when he beats Julian to death.
Vindicated by History - The movie was disliked by Mexican critics on its release. Nowadays, modern critics hail it as a milestone of Mexico's cinema, specially when Mexican cinema suffered after 1970 and its still struggling to recover from it.
The Woobie: Little Eyes (Ojitos). He’s a young child who’s been abandoned by his father in the marketplace.
