THE MILK OFF SORROW-(MOVIE)
Young director Claudia Llosa (Madeinusa) has won the Golden Bear and a
dozen of other prizes around the world for her second work, The
frightened tit, its original Spanish tittle.
Though the plot itself may seem awkward, the movie is a group of 95
minutes rich and beautiful images. The pearls, the potato, the dog, the
wedding, the impoverished suburban Lima, everything is accurately
directed and carefully thought by Ms. Llosa.
Fausta (outstanding Magaly Solier) is suffering from The frightened
tit, an illness that she caught through her mother's breast-milk since
her pregnancy happened during the 1980s and 90s terrorism and State
violence in the Andes. Now in Lima, Fausta is afraid, she's put a
potato in her vagina in order to protect her from being raped, and
after her mother dies she finally has to deal with the real life and
face her fears,starting to work in a high- class house as a maid.
The plot of the movie is fictitious, but it lies on a cruel and past
reality of Peru's modern history, combining it with a delicate halo of
surrealism, magic realism and sometimes ironic humor. The image of the
potato -all time Peruvian ingredient for cuisine- involves the subject
of a war and a fear that affected an entire country, though our
differences may not accept it yet. The scenes in Fausta's home are the
opposite where she works: though the high-class house is in the same
impoverished area (another reference to Peruvian social differences),
over there is no gray, no dust: there are plants, color, life.
At the end, Fausta realizes that in the root of her fears is the
solution of them. The movie, indeed, is presented as a cure for the
unhealed wounds of a terrible and recent war that happened on Peruvian
soil.
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