ColOZio

Acid is magical. You put the paper in your mouth and it works wonders, like revealing secrets of the future. It is a trip that two friends, Diego and Gael, get to embark on after taking a solid dose. They experience a simultaneous revelation: in three days a candidate for the Mexican presidency will be killed in Tijuana. The spry boys steal a car and set off on a rescue mission, driven by the hope that, as national heroes, they will finally realize their dreams. They are not unlike Raoul Duke and his Samoan lawyer in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa. While their journey swirls into a kaleidoscope of absurd sketches, brutal reality seeps into the seemingly laid-back fantasy. As indicated in the opening credits, this film is based on a true story, when on March 23, 1994, Luis Donaldo Colosio was shot dead during an election rally in Tijuana.