Hild 14 Short Paper
Professor Michael Monteon
Hild 14 SectionA02
7 February 2013
Often we can see Latin American films related with violence and depresing endings. Is this related with real Latin American history or are thay just personal ideas authors want to show?
Films have always known a part of Latin America’s history characterized by violence and for showing the natives as the victims of a brutal sovereignty by European powers of those times, besides a church showing a ambiguous behavior depending on their own interests. But, is this the real story or is it just what cinema shows us to capture people’s attention? During the course we’ve seen films showing part of this history, based on Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, and Paraguay. These films have a lot in common, as in the participation of the church, the influence of the Europeans that colonized those territories and in some of them the participation of the high-class people of the country. The films threat in general the difference between high-class characters and lower classes where the last ones always where suffering because of the higher classes misdoings, and the participation of the church in different situations during those times in Latin America, that always had political influence in its acts. But is this what history really shows us? Or do the filmmakers show this aspect just to attract attention to their movies? In all the movies we have seen we se victims of the power and no heroes among them, so this paper will find out if this is how history really is or if it’s just how movies show Latin America.
Analysis Tree films are to be analyzed, these are The Mission, based on the 1750 in the region of the Iguazú, Camila, based on the first half of the 1800 in the Argentina of Juan Manuel de Rosas and The Last Supper, based on the end of the XIII in Cuba. The first film, The Mission shows in a real deep form the participation of the church evangelizing native people of the Americas by
Hild 14 SectionA02
7 February 2013
Often we can see Latin American films related with violence and depresing endings. Is this related with real Latin American history or are thay just personal ideas authors want to show?
Films have always known a part of Latin America’s history characterized by violence and for showing the natives as the victims of a brutal sovereignty by European powers of those times, besides a church showing a ambiguous behavior depending on their own interests. But, is this the real story or is it just what cinema shows us to capture people’s attention? During the course we’ve seen films showing part of this history, based on Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, and Paraguay. These films have a lot in common, as in the participation of the church, the influence of the Europeans that colonized those territories and in some of them the participation of the high-class people of the country. The films threat in general the difference between high-class characters and lower classes where the last ones always where suffering because of the higher classes misdoings, and the participation of the church in different situations during those times in Latin America, that always had political influence in its acts. But is this what history really shows us? Or do the filmmakers show this aspect just to attract attention to their movies? In all the movies we have seen we se victims of the power and no heroes among them, so this paper will find out if this is how history really is or if it’s just how movies show Latin America.
Analysis Tree films are to be analyzed, these are The Mission, based on the 1750 in the region of the Iguazú, Camila, based on the first half of the 1800 in the Argentina of Juan Manuel de Rosas and The Last Supper, based on the end of the XIII in Cuba. The first film, The Mission shows in a real deep form the participation of the church evangelizing native people of the Americas by