La violencia en Toro y Tarde para la iraestrategias estéticas y narrativas de representación

  1. Juan Medina-Contreras
  2. Pedro Sangro Colón
Zeitschrift:
Studia Iberica et Americana: journal of Iberian and Latin American literary and cultural studies

ISSN: 2327-4751 2327-476X

Datum der Publikation: 2019

Nummer: 6

Seiten: 91-103

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Studia Iberica et Americana: journal of Iberian and Latin American literary and cultural studies

Zusammenfassung

Violence is one of the main themes of 2016 films The Fury of a Patient Man (Tarde para la ira, Dir. Raúl Arévalo) and Toro (Dir. Kike Maíllo). Both depict the anti-heroic path of their criminal characters in the pursuit of their goals: revenge and rescue. In this paper we study the aesthetic and narrative strategies that these films develop to achieve —or at least not to lose— the favor of the public by eliding and exaggerating the violence of the protagonist, and also by linking it to the family core