La violencia en Toro y Tarde para la iraestrategias estéticas y narrativas de representación
ISSN: 2327-4751, 2327-476X
Year of publication: 2019
Issue: 6
Pages: 91-103
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia Iberica et Americana: journal of Iberian and Latin American literary and cultural studies
Abstract
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