Rosario Tijeras Movie
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Rosario Tijeras
1. Biography of the director
Emilio Maillé
Documentary filmmaker born in Mexico who has lived in Paris since 1980. With studies in literature.
and cinematography, he was assistant director on several feature films for television and cinema
before directing his first documentary, Los Años Arruza which received the FIPA award at the
Biarritz Film Festival in 1997. His meeting with the late American filmmaker.
Budd Boetticher led him to delve into the world of bullfighting for which he carried out several
works, culminating in the excellent portrait of the famous Manolete, in a documentary
of the same name, and when recalling the trajectory in Mexico of Luis Buñuel with A Buñuel
Mexican. Curro Romero, the Pharaoh of Seville (1998), also made about the relationship
between a city and its bullfighter.
He ventured into the seventh art when he accepted to be the director of the Colombian film.
Rosario Tijeras
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2. Why was this movie made? What does the literary book have that it was adapted?
to the cinema?
There is no doubt that the story of Rosario Tijeras reaffirmed the violent life that is lived in
the neighborhoods of Medellín, the sociopolitical traits that Colombia experienced in the 80s and
he introduced the beauty of a young woman as the worst of misfortunes.
This last one was a decisive factor when adapting Jorge Franco's story to the
big screen. Rosario Tijeras tells a love story on the edge that has as backdrop
in the background, drug trafficking, hired killing, luxury prostitution, and self-destruction, these
factors that turned it into the perfect movie to win over an audience that has refused to
recognize your violent history.
Maillé tells dynamically and without respecting the linearity of time - past, present
and future - the story of this hitwoman who was raped from a very young age by her stepfather, no
he had neither a father nor a mother figure and found fraternal love in his brother.
Emilio Maillé narrates in 'Rosario Tijeras' a love story at the limit, in Medellín of
In the late 80s, 'Rosario Tijeras' was a phenomenon in Hispanic America and for Maillé.
a therapeutic work, seeing a very painful part of the history of Colombia reflected.
Franco's novel closed a very deep wound that Colombian society had been carrying.
it was about a book that has been translated into ten languages.
Moreover, 'Rosario Tijeras' is a story that belongs to all women. Both the book
how the movie has an impact on women, hence its success.
The feature film places great emphasis on the melodramatic part of the original text, in
to the detriment of its attractive possibilities when analyzing the turbulent social environment
the politician who surrounds his characters.
Like Jorge Franco, Maillé managed to pay tribute to the Medellín full of nuances,
personalities and stories that make it one of the best examples of the well-known
Magical Realism by Gabo
3. Comparison between the book and the adaptation
Both the book and the movie tell the same story; however, not all parts
from the book could be adapted to the movie, because the narrative time is shorter. The
the character descriptions in the book are more detailed and profound, they are portrayed with
caution and precision to add depth to the story.
The lexicon used by the characters in the book is open and colloquial; their dialogues describe
the sociocultural characteristics of the communes. The slang and the words immerse the reader.
in the turbulent streets of the neighborhood that gave birth to 'Rosario Tijeras'.
John F. turns out to be the only reference of love that Rosario has, in the movie this
the character was someone else while in the book it is a key piece in the development of the story and
about the life of the young hitwoman. Considering that religion both in the book and in
the movie, its faith in the Virgin Mary and religious elements like scapulars is very
strong and they are extremely their weapon of protection.
In the book, the boundaries and destinies of the characters are defined, while in the movie the
the characters' feelings have more relevance.
What moved me when I saw her?
Rosario Tijeras awakened depressing feelings, seeing how in the beginnings of hitmen in
The neighborhoods of Medellín lived a life of tragedies, drugs, and prostitution. More than for
Rosario's hatred and resentment for her violation at such a young age were more due to the absence.
from a mother. The incredibility towards her own daughter of such a humiliating act.
The loneliness faced by such a small person and the absence of a
family marks a person's destiny, in this case, hatred towards all men who
they raped her, and she with her own hands brought about her death.
It is indescribable to mention how I felt when I saw the movie; what is clear is the terror of
to live a life like that, marked by terror and disappointment. Although as we live in a
A different world makes it impossible not to feel curiosity about how life is in a hell.
like those, knowing how life takes its own course since childhood.
In my case, I am very family-oriented; my family, after God, is the most important thing in my life.
I am surrounded by quite a few women and little girls, and I can't imagine where this would happen.
Something like that, it would be impossible not to want to take justice into one's own hands, but on the other hand
Generating more violence is not good for humanity, it only creates resentment.
it feeds desperation and disillusionment.
What story comes to my mind?
Antonio arrives at the bar where Ferney killed Rosario, stares at him, approaches him and
celebrate what he just did, a little puzzled Ferney stands looking at him but he
believe.
Two months later, Antonio is the most wanted man in the department of Antioquia,
for drug trafficking, who would have believed it, Antonio left his comfortable and tranquil life, to
avenge Rosario's death.
He became a big boss of the neighborhood, accompanied by his accomplice Ferney, together
they committed the worst atrocities, thanks to the hatred for the death of the only woman there was
loved in the world.
Ferney started to see him as the brother he never had, and he confessed to him some of the...
tragedies that were committed day and night, they would talk for a long time, drink and even
they enjoyed causing terror in the area.
It was a Tuesday, around 1 in the afternoon when the police station received the
a call informing about the macabre murder to Ferney. Who would have believed the intellectual author?
The criminal was Antonio, yes Antonio that calm and unconditional man he knew.
Rosario.
