Con el corazón en la mano

El Gato, a steel worker, rapes a woman. From that act of savagery, a whirlwind of passion is unleashed, the debasement of sex as a link between those who seek fortune, brings with it a change of role and the perpetrator becomes the victim.

I haven't seen this film, but today it was announced that one of the Spanish-language broadcast services in the US was going to be fined by the Federal Communications Commission for running it in 2004, a film about, as one listing puts it in Spanish, "the strange relation a woman has with the man who violated her." Sounds kind of unfortunate, from some perspectives, perhaps, but one wonders if it is truly not something reasonable adults should be allowed to see on US television...but the same Commission session decided that such things as episodes of WITHOUT A TRACE and the PBS documentary series THE BLUES were also actionable. To say nothing of the SuperBowl halftime show featuring Janet Jackson, and another football game broadcast where a player mimed mooning the audience (mimed, mind you).

This movie would have got nowhere without Maria Conchita Alonso's performance, the powerful plot and shocking end is really a work of art. It is commented that Maria Conchita Alonso wanted to buy the rights for the movie but the rights owner didn't want to. Whatever happened this movie has not been released in English language, and a great performance from Maria Conchita, can't be seen yet. The movie shows the ordeals that some people from Colombia went thru, to get to stay in Venezuela, Maria Conchita plays a high society woman obsessed with her lover. The movie shows a very rare often edited scene, where Maria Conchita Alonso gets raped in a Ladies bathroom. Dark very powerful, raw and controversial, this is one of Maria Conchita Alonso's greatest performances, a must see.

Yeah I'm not a big fan but I saw it on antenna tv as a young guy .... wow has some great scenes!!! Good story.

Unfortunately I haven't seen that movie too, so I have no "a priori" for or against it.

BUT reading the post about suggesting it's may be not a clever thing

that grown up adult would be able to see it, I just JUMP out of my chair !

What ? Did I read well ? Well, yes, it seems so, of course...

Let me explain it in plain words...

After authorizing such movies (not my taste but well done, I agree) like for instance,

Silence of the Lamb, Se7en, Kill Bill or other gore ones,

I wonder (in fact I don't, I know why !) what are the reasons behind...

Of course, in any way I completely disagree with any sort of rape (unless as adult consented games !)

but with such opinion of what should be seen and what has not to be seen...

It more than tickles me !

Suddenly a backward clerk (remembers the Pre-code ?) decided to put the machinery on...

So please, before thinking about adults (supposed to have a brain and manners !),

I would say anywhere and worldwide, and unfortunately not only in the US

which is known to have as many guns as there are inhabitants),

we should think if there is no close and straight relation between what is shown

on our world's theater/television screens and the actual violence, down on the streets, and inside one's home !

You would/could tell me that aggression is in our genes... I agree, yes,

yet I think showing daily strong violence doesn't help,

especially if "the home's conditions" are tough.

Such poverty and unbalanced wealth increase the risks,

and thinking that if we would it could change...

But who does want it ? Who cares ?

AND studies even show that these last points (poverty, ...)

are even NOT definitive adding factors, speaking about violence...

Therefore, on that point my believes seem to be wrong !

So, let look and let see, and let's make one's own choice...

I might make you laugh : Let's make Love, not War !

Good day, good evening, my human friends...

PS Don't remember whose Greek philosopher (Aristote ?) wrote about today violence, it was 2000 years ago...

and how funny I just seem to speak the same way... may be I'm just an old backward man too...