Film: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Starring: Walter Mercado
Director: Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch
Rating: ****
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Mucho, Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, created by Cristina Constantini and Kareem Tabsch, is a Netflix original documentary and a paean to its subject. The enrapturing film investigates the ascent and fall of a cherished symbol of the Spanish-talking world who bolted crowds for over four decades with his uncontrollably doubtful act and enchanting character.
The New Netflix show starts by inviting watchers into Walter's home and taking us through his youth. It's here where we discover that Walter was viewed as a healer since adolescence, which put him down the way to be at the center of attention, spreading adoration, and light whether it was through stage plays, move, telenovelas, or, at long last, his TV show. Walter excited a great part of the world with sequined capes, extravagant gems, and horoscopes that mutual a message of adoration and plan to his dedicated watchers. However, the entirety of that finished when he vanished from the open eye and needed to battle the previous manager of his own personality.
Of those mind-boggling features, the most fascinating is the film's conversation of Mercado's sexuality. While dressing at a similar degree of rich flashiness as Liberace, Mercado's sexuality was continually something he kept hidden from his fans. Questions with respect to his sexuality and even sex is introduced in this film. While answers to those inquiries stay questionable, his impact on the LGBT QIA+ people group was most certainly not. It was obviously significant, particularly when it conflicted with the customary and strict perspectives on homosexuality that numerous individuals in Hispanic, people group have.
The explanation that Mucho Amor hits all my passionate harmonies is that we get the chance to see and hear Walter once again. Past that, we get the chance to see the individuals who love his talk on his inheritance and his affection. This stretches out into the individuals who saw themselves in Walter. Regardless of failing to be open about his sexual personality, many saw themselves in his self-depicted hermaphrodism. While some may consider Walter's to be as becoming tied up with the harmful machismo culture, his unashamed nearness was something contrary to that.
Mercado's childhood, sexuality, and achievement are intriguing in their own right, yet those themes are required to be talked about in a narrative on the amazing stargazer. What was not expected and amazed me are the subjects of life and demise concentrated on all through the film. To see Mercado, who spent a profession foreseeing the fate of others, confronting the mercilessness of his own mortality without information on how his end would come was genuinely grasping.
While that may cast a dull tone over the Netflix original documentary, creators Kareem Tabsch and Cristina Costantini stood out its darker subjects from Mercado's well-known persona, eventually making a narrative that reflected Walter Mercado's character. His character from multiple points of view reflected his extravagant capes and shining adornments; Mercado was just overwhelming. He conveyed kid like vitality even into his later years that appeared to increase much more quality at whatever point he was encircled by cameras and, above all, his worshiping fans.
Final Word - Mucho Mucho Amor isn't simply true to life documentary. It is likewise a character study that intends to go past the capes, past the images, past the flair. What makes this narrative so exciting is that we at long last to reveal the puzzle of the man behind the capes.
An Untold Story of an Enchanting Character!
