Chile’s Oscar entry, “Blanquita” by Fernando Guzzoni, is based on the infamous “Spiniak Case,” the exposure in the early 2000s of a child prostitution/pedophilia ring involving powerful Chilean pol…
: “It is a film full of provocative and complex ideas, which establishes an interesting relationship with viewers due to its game of empathy. The film plays with these built-in loyalties, and oscillates between different viewpoints to make us understand who’s who in this game of mirrors. For us viewers, that disorientation becomes its charm at times, almost the very essence of what I feel that you were trying to grasp in “Blanquita.” Does that resonate with you?: Yes, totally.
That seemed very interesting to me, I don’t know when you filmed it, but at one point in the story, everything explodes, shatters and one is able to see a mosaic in motion. And the further one spirals into what the film offers, the harder it is to know what is what. It seems to be a very modern problem, in the era where everyone has a part in the collective writing. It’s that moment in which paradoxically we are most lost, where we do not know who to believe or what, or precisely what is real.
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