The Oscars are less than a week away. And on the eve of this, I decided to watch at least a few films from the nomination “Best Foreign Language Film”, as I watched only the French “Prophet”. The first in line, as it is not strange was not “White Ribbon”, but the little-known Peruvian film “Milk of Sorrow”.
I have not seen a single Peruvian film before. I knew there was a Hollywood Anaconda filmed somewhere in that area, but it was an American movie, which is different. The film was also interesting for that.
The young heroine with her mother’s milk absorbed fear of the world around her. The mother was raped during Peru’s fascist regime, which killed 70,000 people between 1980 and 2000. In order not to repeat the fate of the raped mother, the heroine keeps potatoes in an intimate place, which should serve as a shield when trying to rape. Potatoes live their lives and grow successfully, demonstrating the unity of man and nature.
Already on one description you can think that the film is some kind of provocative. So did I. But nothing like that, the film was very decent, even, in my opinion, too much. The film is about an ardent feminist who despises almost all men (except the gardener from the house of her mistress), constantly avoids them, and tries to avoid them in every way, which is confirmed by numerous weddings. And the symbol of feminism is precisely this potato. In terms of weddings. In my opinion, they were shot in vain for the film, because the atmosphere created by the main character did not predispose to this, and therefore, it seems to me, they looked very distant from the film, as if they were shooting for another picture. If, for example, in Emir Kusturica’s Black Cat, White Cat, the wedding (which was extremely similar to all the numerous weddings from this film) and the rest of the film were one whole, then in this film they only destroy the atmosphere set at the beginning of the film, since in essence it is very sad. In many ways, this served as the main character in the performance ... Twenty-three-year-old Magali Soller. It was not a bad thing for his character. Of course, it’s not Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis from Thelma and Louise, who just brilliantly played notorious feminists, but there was a slightly different role. It’s a bit calmer, it’s just that somehow she was so sad that by the end of the film I wasn’t really happy to look at her, but I repeat, she played very well.
It was a very good movie. Fully met my expectations, although I was hoping for something more frank, but it turned out what happened. A well-deserved Oscar nomination, in my opinion. But I don’t understand the meaning of pearls. Toli is a symbol of the spiritual rise of the main character, or on the contrary, a spiritual fall, is it something else?
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