Questions on Latin American Cinema

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Latin American Cinema
Chapter 6
Question 1: Bunuel does not identify The Forgotten with Italian Neorealism because the movie seeks to invalidate the essentialist building of characters in Italian films where agreeable characters are portrayed as essentially good people by presenting characters, even those who are good, as capable of malevolence. Bunuel believed that neorealism was aesthetically deficient and failed to fully capture the intricacies of reality.
Question 2: The end of Los Olviados underscores the bounds of reformism by illustrating how the country’s social reform project continues to neglect certain social classes and entrenches them in poverty.
Question 3: Octavio Paz’s comments about the movie Los Olvidados highlight the importance of expressing the mysterious and fantastic essence of life as the language of cinema (Rodriguez). Question 4: Both The Labyrinth of Solitude by O. Paz and The Forgotten share a comprehension of Mexican identity as the consequence of the dealings between the social reality of a contemporary state and a foundational fiction.
Question 5: The issues presented by This Strange Passion (El) by Bunuel include homosexuality, male identity, and oedipal complex. Most of the camera techniques used are closely shot to emphasize Francisco’s paranoia and insanity.
Question 6: The concerns presented in the Nilssen Tower Trilogy are the enclosure of women, the working class, and Argentina’s indigenous communities. These films can be interpreted as a critique of patriarchy because they highlight the dominant gender’s systematic rape of women and subjugation of native populations. Each woman in the film is attracted and repulsed by a monster of the patriarchy resulting in open-ended and unclear endings (Rodriguez).
Question 7: The Latin American cinema of the 1950s was not Eurocentric but more aligned with the stories of Latin American modernity. For instance, all the films covered so far were specific to the social changes occurring during the...