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La Región Salvaje

The Untamned

Amat Escalante

Drama • 2016 • 1h 40m

La Región Salvaje

Reviewed by Beatrice 23. June 2023

Mexico

Veronica hangs out with a strange creature in an isolated cabin in the woods.

Alejandra has two children and lives with her husband Angel, who is in a homosexual relationship with her brother, Fabian.

The boy is a nurse and one day meets the enterprising Veronica, who is always struggling with her sexual independence and a strange wound on her pelvis, officially presented as a canine bite.

The biker Veronica convinces these friends of hers to go to the cabin where a scientist lives, with his wife, struggling with the perpetuation of the species. An erotic Noah's ark-style biblical image gives us an understanding of what is going on, as the strange " creature" enhances pleasure by bringing it to the addiction those who have that incredible experience.

In a macho and homophobic reality more than one crime happens, and the first victim seems to be a homosexual. The animal species will evolve and presumably so will the human species, grappling with desire and the spasmodic pursuit of pleasure.

But only on the condition that one's relationship with the es, the most driveful aspect of the psychoanalytic breakdown of personality, in Freudian memory, knows how to come to terms with one's ego, so as not to demand the further intervention of the superego, embodied by a misogynistic and patriarchal society.

It is difficult to trade extreme pleasure for security, although " the discomfort of civilization" poses it as a "sine qua non" of survival.

Only if human beings can handle this blackmail can they be worthy of perpetuating the evolution of the species.

In the pagan ritual of life and desire, the human sacrifice of those who impose real human evolution is fulfilled. Penalty: violent death.

What is it that kills? Is the monster a symbol of a culture that does not recognize differences?

The creature is servant and master of bodies, feeding on them on condition that they become masters of themselves. Penalty: selection from the species.

The creature acts and consumes those who do not resist its temptation.

Sexual fetishism generates evolution, addiction or death.

A narrative focused on the pleasure principle: political, stunning, unusual, disturbing.

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