Everyman Film Analysis

Given the Mexican government's insistence to adopt ruinous neoliberal policies, the government's attention and funds have been directed away from preventing sexual violence and in turn, normalize an environment of rape culture in Ciudad Juarez. In order to expose the universality and trauma of sexual violence, Carrera villainizes the "everyman." By presenting Cutberto's character development, from benign lover to rapist, Carrera primarily conveys the trauma of femicide by showing graphic scenes of sexual violence. In the beginning of the film, Cutberto's innocence is ascribed by his initial unwillingness to have sex with Juana and his subsequent heartbreak when she leaves him. The audience sympathizes with Cutberto until he resorts to violence.
Instead of offering potential solutions to mitigate sexual violence or economic inequality, Carrera concludes the film with statistics corresponding to the prevalence of global femicide. This exclusion of a comforting ending, which typically occurs once the criminal is discovered and punished, serves to emphasize the severity of this global conflict. However, Carrera's most effective mode of depressing the final scenes of the film was to introduce his final villain, Detective Bravo. At the conclusion of the thriller, Carrera asks the viewer to question the virtue of Detective Bravo as she murders Mickey Santos, successful entrepreneur and pedophile. The scene begins with Mickey Santos catcalling a young teenager at night and detective Bravo subsequently ambushing him. Just as the archetypal villain describes his plans to the protagonists in murder mysteries, Carrera purposefully vocalizes Mickey Santos' internal thoughts to aid the audience's rationalization of Bravo's murder. Santos' surrender and prideful remarks of his "fair deal with the authorities to have a fair trial and fair sentence" reinforce the government's inability to rectify crime if it hinders economic prosperity. Through his taunting, Detective Bravo is pushed past the point of disillusionment and shoots Santos eight times with tears in her eyes. The shot then shifts from a crane view of Bravo sobbing to a silent fifteen-second shot of the full moon. This inclusion of a visual and auditory pause helps the audience gauge the gravity of Bravo's actions. Given Santos' wealth and power, Detective Bravo recognizes his sentence will be cut short and his immunity will be ensured by the economically dependent Mexican government. However, this killing is still murder and the audience leaves the movie more hopeless than at the