Brutal passion and political commentary meet in Luis Buñuel’s take on the Frankenstein tradition.  Made during his commercial period in Mexico, The Brute (1953), which pits a bourgeois landowner against his working-class tenants, may qualify as Luis Buñuel’s most political work. At the time of the film’s release, Mexico was going through an intense period of change and economic growth. Women received the vote, industrialization was occurring at a rapid rate, and the government had cut public funding. Conflicts between the state, the workers, and the labor unions were common.  Nevertheless, The Brute works well as both a twist on the Frankenstein mythos and a Marxist fable.