The ‘volunteer’: the guilt complex of privileged solidarity

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‘Voluntarily’

Address Nely Reguera

interpreters Carmen Machi, Itsaso Arana, Délia Brufau, Arnau Comas, Yohan Lévy, Henrietta Rauth

Year 2022

premiere 9 June 2022

Punctuation ★★★

In its first feature, ‘Mary (and others)’, Nely Reguera Focus on the state of uncertainty of a disoriented young woman playing. barbara lennie, plunged into a personal crisis. In his new movie, ‘Voluntarily’In , the director approaches this same sense of chaos from a different perspective, from the perspective of a woman who has devoted her entire life to her profession, public health doctor and caring for her children, and who finds herself after retirement. itself is empty. This concept, which is too abstract for the First World and can lead to a certain guilt complex, will try to fill this gap through solidarity.

To what extent do we want to help others or atone for our own faults? One of the mainstays of this story is the story of a retired woman. refugee camp To feel useful in Greece.

Nely Reguera manages to condense all the ethical paradoxes produced around this situation in a minimal amount of time. privileged people trying to change the world. What they don’t really know is a wonderful world for them.

In this sense, particularly excitingly carmen machi becomes a reflection of our moral dilemmas. What if we could save someone, even someone, from this human and social catastrophe? The movie raises more questions than it answers, and what’s really interesting is that it delves into such a controversial topic with its contradictions showing both sides of the coin.

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