The Latino films I think are a good element for a critical analysis of our context, well, which I think are good, are those that represent the problem of marginalization in Latin American.
Some examples are: "Voces inocentes", "La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas". The first deals with the use of children by the army and also shows injustice against innocent people who are forced to fight in the war.The second film show you of form realistically the complicated subject of Central American migration to Mexico to make it to the United States and meet the famous American Dream.
These movies are very impressive to me because it looks all pain of our latin american people, from the structural to the exclusion exclusion symbolic. In these films are shown all the problems brought about by the colonization of our latin american peoples, such as: shifting the value of the earth, problems with power (vertical), in other words, the problem of looking down on others, what dehumanizes us, another problem is the accumulation of goods.
Mainly because I like part of our reality show hidden, forgotten... I think it's a good way to reflect, as moves to look at reality with new eyes, to want to change things everyday, I think you can not keep doing the same things after seeing the social injustices that are shown in these movie
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I agree with you in that these kind of movies represent a reality that it is generally omitted by the mainstream movies. Latin american movies are full of these kind of stories. I recomend you the "Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano" movement (1960s) that expressed in a realistic and hard way our reality as a region.
ResponderBorrarSome of these movies could be really "raw" and intense but if it is our reality we have to be strong enough to watch them, even if it is sad or unhappy :(
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