Technical
Year: 2009
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Writer: Javier Fuentes-León
Country: Peru
Genre: Drama
120 min.
cast Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo
Synopsis Michael is a dear young fisherman of Cape Blanco, a small fishing village on the north coast of Peru, where there deep-rooted traditions about death. Michael is married to Mariela, seven months pregnant with their first child, but has an extremely secret romance with another man Santiago, a painter who moved to town a year ago and is rejected by the people to be agnostic and open about their sexuality. Miguel faces a great dilemma when James accidentally drowns and returns, after death, to ask him to find his body in the sea and bury it, according to the rituals of the people, that his soul rests. To do so would reveal his relationship with James, and ruining his marriage and reputation. Failing which he would sentence him to wander forever.
Michael is forced to deal with the consequences of their actions and accept who he really, although doing so there is a possibility of losing the people you love.
Comment
This movie makes me think about the need for transit through the match against a loss in each of its phases:
1 .- Confusion and disbelief. The denial of reality, a departure from the done to try to mitigate the effects of the event. Michael denies his relationship with James, is something unusual and unacceptable in their community, despite their feelings chooses to live with his wife and is expecting her first child, this life fits into your order and clings to it . Santiago feels a deep affection for and attraction, allowed to reveal in the solitude of the couple, from the secret and internal negation.
2. Deep sadness and aggression. Under pressure from Santiago on one side and gossip emerging from the gossip of the town, his secret is threatened not accepted, Miguel this experience will produce reactions of anger, discontent and anxiety, feeling the protagonist of a disgrace that does not star.
3. Despair and depression. With apathy, sadness and fragility, is realizing how he has to make a vital choice beyond being carried away by momentary impulse, a decision that means losing one of their lives, in this case and denied the hidden life. In pregnancy of the decision, loses his wife and son when he disclosed the relationship with Santiago. Being honest with yourself and therefore with his wife, is the first step of the way for acceptance of his own life, and that's what helps him out of the loop.
4. Acceptance and peace. Is slowly reviving the need to focus on daily activities, be open to social relations, to continue with his life. However, never returns to its state before the loss. After this process, Michael is another, confident, deep, deep, a transformation derived from his own grief and acceptance, today is a man with greater understanding of himself that before the duel.
The film plays with a double death, domestic and physical Miguel Santiago. Strikes me as the film is how we cling to memories emotional response to loss, either death, or separation, not willing to release their loved one died, in this case, Miguel Santiago still had in his mind, talking with , not wanting to let go of him, clinging to his memory and company, and only after the acceptance of his death, and be faithful to fulfill the wish of his friend comes to his funeral and then finally at peace and is released their addiction.
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I recommend this film, readers, I was transported to an environment of extraordinary warmth and humanity, and a greater understanding of how pain is healing, and how after death there is life.
Raquel Lázaro
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