Dan’l and I went to see “El Santo en Anónimo Mortal” at a museum downtown Friday night. It wasn’t movies, Shakespeare or jazz on the park, but it was better because the weather was cool, they provided benches (no sitting on wet grass) and it wasn’t crowded. Plus free wine is always a bonus.
El Santo is a masked wrestler who happens to solve mysteries and fight crime during the day. He even has his own Scoobies.
I used to watch El Santo movies with my dad when I was little, but I don’t remember much about plots. (El Santo made several movies in character—sort of like James Bond.) When I tried to explain to Dan’l what we were about to watch, I said, “El Santo fights bad guys.” I was wrong. El Santo is more than a fighter, he solves mysteries.
The whole movie unfolded like a Law & Order episode. Old guys around town are dying. El Santo and his Scoobies finally connect the victims to each other—they were German immigrants and they fought the Nazis during World War II. El Santo was able to deduce this from the information his Scoobies got for him—detecting and forensic science in the ‘70s! In Mexico!
But the best thing about the movie was the soundtrack. I don’t know who put the music together, but the jazzy soundtrack classes up the movie.
Watch it with subtitles and then watch it again without sound and make up your own lines. It’s a lot of fun both ways.
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