[Pen-l] Cautiva, The Monastery

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Although the 2003 “Cautiva” shares a plot very similar to the 1985 “The 
Official Story”, there is one crucial difference. In “The Official 
Story”, the adopted daughter of desaparecidos parents is only 5 years 
old and is too young to be emotionally torn apart by the knowledge that 
her adoptive parents were part of the system that killed her birth 
parents. Most of the drama in the 1985 Argentinean movie revolves around 
the mother's mounting feelings of guilt and her eventual break with her 
husband, a conservative businessman.

In “Cautiva”, the adopted child is a teenager whose world is torn apart 
when she discovers that she is the daughter of desaparecidos as well. 
The movie begins by placing Cristina Quadri (Bárbara Lombardo) into her 
social context. She is an utterly conventional girl who goes to Catholic 
school and has just celebrated a birthday thrown by her adoring parents, 
who she adores in turn. Her family life can be described as one of utter 
middle-class normalcy.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/cautiva-the-monastery/
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