The film deals with the struggle
between two different and incompatible ways of seeing life although
they have a common border. On the one hand there are the Hispanos:
tied forever to religion, passion, improvisation and destiny; and
on the other there are the Americans: condemned to live happily,
without problems, in front of their TV sets, protected by a plastic
suit of armor.
It is a confrontation between the
savage and the domesticated; between the dangerous and the
harmless. I am on the side of the bad guys, of those who take
risks, who live their lives to the very limit. It is also a love
story, of treachery and death, where the characters know their own
Destiny and learn how to face it. Romeo and Perdita are two
murderers, two despicable creatures, but they are charming,
upright, genuine too. The relationship they set up with the other
couple of teenage Yankees whom they kidnap and mistreat, is
explosive. Just imagine what might happen if Hannibal Lecter and
Cruella de Vil took the characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" out
for a picnic. Something like that happens in "Perdita Durango"[...]
In spite of it all, it is still a romantic, tragic, classic story,
about treachery and blind loyalties. Very religious too. And much
like a Western. I think I have grown up while making this
movie.
ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA.