Heroic
(2023)
★ 7.2 IMDb · 212 votes
Year: 2023
Runtime: 88 мин
Country: Mexico, Sweden
Director: David Zonana
Cast: Santiago Sandoval, Fernando Cuautle, Mónica del Carmen, Esteban Caicedo, Isabel Yudice, Carlos Gerardo García, Germán Carrizales, Salvador Rico, Ricardo Tadeo, Ari Axel Hernández
Plot
Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.
With the livelihood options for underprivileged Mexicans being inherently limited and often steeped in illegality and danger, 18-year-old Luis chooses what seems to be a safer path to financially support his ailing mother: he enrolls in the national military academy to stay away from the drug cartels. However, the brutal and often criminal practices he encounters during his training will challenge his moral, psychological, and physical boundaries.