Pan Negro

The film Pan Negro paints a picture of Catalan, Spain, after the brutal civil war against the nationalists. By opening with a dark, violent scene introducing a murder, viewers get a sense of the malicious plot that is to follow. The main character, Andreu, is a young child who witnessed the murder in the beginning of the film. Andreu’s father is later accused of the murder by authorities.
In Cristina Moreira’s piece, Spectacle, Trauma and Violence, she discusses the transition from dictatorship to representative democracy. She states that the three fundamental concepts to understand Spain’s cultural trajectory are spectacle, trauma and violence. For spectacle, she states that individuals begin to self-fetish and then represent themselves