Santiago Mitre Paulina LA PATOTA Drama • 2015 • 1h 43m

Argentina

Paulina is a young lawyer with great humanitarian ambitions. Dissatisfied with her career not devoted to social work, she decides to go to teach civic education in a remote region of the country. Her father, a progressive judge, is unable to convince her to desist from her purpose and continue her career. Despite laudable intentions, Paulina encounters a hostile reality with which she cannot enter into a good relationship, and a devastating and traumatic event not only will not make her desist but will foment in her a kind of progressive fundamentalism.

In the face of a world that produces only evil, one cannot refuse to welcome any happening even if it undermines the conviction dictated by good intentions.

Violence must be experienced to the full, without removal, without hypocrisy without denial.

The reactionary response cannot be accepted by Paulina, who persists in wanting to understand. Only understanding and acceptance provides for her humanitarian mode.

Her progressive fundamentalism does not allow her to discount although her body has been violated and fertilized by violence that abuses its power of death and life.

Remake of a 1950 film of the same name, with commendable performances, this is the story of an old-time heroine with an emblematic and restless gaze who makes her own skin the pride of example. A difficult and conflicted figure, severe with others and even more so with herself.

A character that of Paulina that makes her angular and at times incomprehensible by making her the convergence of question marks with respect to which a careful and unresolved gaze must be lingered and that requires a deep commitment to understand how judgment and choice is almost always dictated by a trivially prejudiced position.

Beautiful, intense, disturbing.