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Plata Quemada

2003; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5902/1679849x74300

1679-849X

David William Foster,

Spanish Culture and Identity

There is a moment, about a half-hour into Marcelo Piñeyro's Plata Quemada (2000), of really quite pure tragic dimensions. I use the word "tragic" advisedly, not in its overused sense of "pathetic" or "unfortunate," nor to capture the inevitable violence and death that stalks all human existence. Rather, I use it in the sense of classical Greek drama to capture that instance in which the individual defies, if not the unforgiving gods, the inflexible rules that govern the harsh realities of social life.