7/1/2023 0 Comments Movie vera cruz![]() The ritual itself involves nailing a triangular artifact to the ground, which in turn traps the possessed long enough for the bruja to rip out the demon. The Outsider: El Coco Explained By Tony SokolĪfter several attempts at making Postehki reveal itself, Cristina discovers the “broken man” ritual in one of Luz’s books, which the bruja agrees to perform. That said, Postehki could be inspired by real Aztec deities, like Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the dead, who is depicted as a tall, bloody skeleton with sharp teeth and a necklace made of human eyeballs, although the description isn’t a perfect match with what we see on screen. In the Nahuatl language spoken by Luz and the other indigenous people descended from the Aztecs, “postehki” means “broken” or “to break,” which could be how director Christopher Alender and writer Marcos Gabriel came up with the name for the demon. Postehki isn’t a real deity from Aztec mythology, though. Postehki draws victims who are depressed or in pain, which is why it preys on Cristina, who is also suffering from a heroin addiction, making her more susceptible to the visions and influence of the demon. In the movie, La Boca is the lair of Postehki, the “death god of broken things” who feeds on the souls of those who enter the cave. Despite being warned not to step foot in the cave that’s said to harbor demonic spirits, Cristina plans to kill herself there. While we initially believe that Cristina is in Mexico to report on the local beliefs and shamanic practices of the brujos living in her hometown of Catemaco, a place she hasn’t visited since the death of her mother during an exorcism, Cristina admits to her cousin Miranda (Andrea Cortes) that La Boca was her destination all along. While there isn’t an actual La Boca cave in Veracruz - at least not by that name - some elements of The Old Ways‘ story are still steeped in real Mexican folklore and witchcraft. Her former editor has come looking for her but has accidentally stumbled into La Boca himself. “We’re not good at this, but we’re going to get better,” Cristina tells Carson in the final scene of the movie. In fact, Cristina admits in one of the best scenes of the movie that she’s always felt displaced anywhere she went, that she doesn’t think there’s a home for her, which is why she’s run away from her life in order to find death.īut by the time the credits roll on this tale of witchcraft, Cristina has instead found purpose as the new bruja (Spanish for “witch”) of the Mexican village where she was born, ready to continue fighting the demons that lurk in La Boca as her unlikely mentor Luz once did. Sure, she finds herself captive in a village in the outskirts of Veracruz, Mexico, but she wasn’t any closer to home as a reporter in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() By the end of The Old Ways, we’ve learned a few things about Brigitte Kali Canales’ Cristina, primarily that she’s been lost for much longer than the movie lets on. ![]()
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