This film seems very pale and slurred work compared to the drama Our Mothers, presented the same year in Cannes. Both films are about trials that began in Guatemala in the case of genocide carried out by fascists 30 years ago. In contrast to the realism and historicism of Our Mothers, La Lorona takes the question of restoring justice and punishing the guilty from the legal sphere to the irrational world, where an elderly general involved in crimes already has difficulty distinguishing reality from visions, and those who live with him from the guerrillas who persecute him in night terrors. Where the general's wife is engaged in spiritualism and his maid performs purification ceremonies.
The court ruled against the general, and now his home is surrounded by protesters demanding what appears to be real punishment instead of being confined to his family. Having suffered defeat in the physical world, people close to the general begin to turn their eyes to the invisible world, in order to find there protection and solution to their problems. But the invisible world demands justice, which is expressed in the mythical image of Jorona, a woman crying for her dead children. And the general and Yorona have a long history - even before the court decision, she became his prosecutor, judge, and executioner. It’s nice to have supernatural forces on the side of the truth, but in this case it’s also a disappointment in justice in a world where it’s impossible to imprison someone who’s guilty of tens of thousands of people being killed for nothing.