Thursday, June 24, 2010

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El Cielito

A week ago I had the Argentine film " El Cielito " seen. He was very touched. It's about the 20-year-old Felix, who has no one, sits in the train, and nowhere in the Argentine interior lands. A mason he offers to work for room and board with him on the small orchard. There he finds a country life as it had 50 years ago may be, only that the brutal machismo the Mason against his Paraguayan Mrs well as everything else is gone. The crying baby makes him just as insane as the question of his wife in the presence of others, whether it is still early to reduce the jam state. Unconditional obedience to constituted his manhood.
Félix falls somewhat out of the binary gender schema. He takes over all tasks involved in the house and outside, wins the love and cares for baby. He endures the loneliness of screaming babies not apply where the pater familas again after an excess of violence or rape his wife feel like it. The film is indicated vaguely unreal, that he himself grew up without parents at his grandmother. The identification with the child leads him to a promise to never leave it alone.

Finally, after the official heterosexual family idyll of father-mother-child is completely destroyed, Félix breaks with the baby - just in the anonymous, highly individualistic mega-city of Buenos Aires. He ends up in a room in the night, not very safe area Constitución. Touching it takes care of the baby - heaven and earth seem to touch, a tiny moment. Then it catches up with reality. Those that are notoriously few jobs that those who do not pay, can not find mercy. Once again, the machinations of the police with the excluidos addressed. Felix meets a street urchin who receives from time to time "orders". He is allowed to accompany him. The end is tragic.

The film director María Victoria Menis of the 2004 was inspired by a true newspaper notice. Solid, I was confronted with the continuity of Militädiktatur and violence in Argentina today. By movies, by a voice teacher, by the MEDH. There, I have many times admired the clarity with which the need for their work in the barrios pobres and villas will be given. Because they have to fight hard with the excuse of human rights work in times of democracy. At that time it may make sense to have been perhaps necessary, but now? is the question. A very beautiful illusion in the light of the many unsolved murders by the state police force, or the desaparecid @ s that disappear today, like Julio López, belongs only to the better known examples. The pact of silence, the former military is still kept, as we were told during a visit to the ESMA (Escuela Mecánica de la Armada ), one of the great centers of torture last dictatorship. State terror is also in times of democracy. Perhaps in Europe, where thousands of refugees can die in the Mediterranean?

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