Cases of gender-based violence continue to be a social scourge. Everyone talks about it, but they don’t talk about the other side, “the victim and her desire for revenge“. Valencian filmmaker Pedro Pérez Rosado overcame this barrier and placed on the victim’s head. four raonsreflective tape Today, Wednesday, at 20:45 in Kinépolis, As part of the Alicante Film Festival.
“For me it’s like a revenge and it’s never talked about; He has no right to respond to such cruelty and slaps,” he said. perez rosado his second film in Valencia, with his screenplay Lilian Rosado and a cast headed by Cristina Plaza, Mercedes Sampietro, Loren López and Jordi Ballestero. “I prefer to talk about maltreatment against women because gender violence is a political term; maltreatment includes other meanings, physical and mental, meaning it can happen to your spouse, but also at your workplace or with your children.”
The plot centers on a woman who, eight years ago, was mistreated by her husband when she was pregnant, leaving her in a vegetative state. After this period, when they are able to save their daughter, they seduce Maria. bad memories and violence You lived with your partner who took you where you are. The tape is inserted into the victim’s mind to reflect what will happen when he gets out of bed and Justice will be done on their own.
“Almost every day you wake up in the morning to a woman who was killed or disappeared, and then everything summed up in a minute’s silence at the door of the town hall,” he assures. Lilian Rosado, screenwriter and producer. “There’s a lot of things behind it, an infrastructure that takes measures to support women, and a lot of people working for it, but that’s where it ends.” For the screenwriter, “violence has no color, it’s black or white, so the film is discolored.”
For the director who also shoots other feature films such as Bad anyone A woman with magnificent wings, Dealing with the issue of abuse of women is “too complicated”. So many people describe the movie as “disturbing”, says Lilian Rosado. “It bothers me when people say it’s a disturbing movie. It scares me when they say it might disturb the audience.”
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The director and screenwriter said, “Do you think so? there is light in the darkness“, but when you call for help “Not all doors open for such a terrible issue, it is not easy to get support. Or they stay silent and finally say no.” In this case, with the exception of the IVC, the Diputación de Valencia, and the city councils of Almenara and Sagunto, where the film was shot.
four raons, possibly to be released this summer, Shot in Valencia, as the director already did A woman with magnificent wings. “What we want is to be exhibited in Valencian language, although we are aware that this reduces trade fair channels, it is also a step towards normalizing things.”