The Milk of Sorrow
The Milk of Sorrow
| 27 August 2010 (USA)
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Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.

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Steineded

How sad is this?

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ThedevilChoose

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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TrueHello

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Juana

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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leslieaddleman

After seeing the movie "The Milk of Sorrow" by Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa. I have the opinion that it is a story of fear provoked by popular beliefs in Peru, because some women in the Shining Path Era, a Guerrilla group of the eighties that it emerged in Peru, they were raped and mistreated and had children marked by this fear. Fausta is a young woman marked and judged by society since she is the daughter of a rape and her mother was responsible for transmitting this fear with popular beliefs such as the frightened tit, "milk of sorrow", which is transmitted by mothers to their mothers. babies. You can also clearly see the social racism in this movie. After the death of Fausta's mother, she needs to get money to be able to bury her mother in her homeland, that's when she gets a job in a house of high social class where the owner takes advantage of her shyness and lack of education by stealing a song that uses it as theirs. Fausta confronts her fears in that house and confronts them when she meets the gardener of the house, speaks with her own language that is Quechua, she feels very good with him. Fausta's strength is imposed on the pain and fear in which he lived in that society, he manages to remove the potato he had in his body, which caused him discomfort. She manages to bury her mother but first she goes through the sea that signals the new life that awaits her later, a hope of a new life for Fausta, without fears, without pain. The film also shows violence against women that leaves them soulless and very afraid.

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greatdeceivah

Hollywood's cultural Marxists have perfected their formula for nominating Foreign Films to the Oscars. This movie has all components to meet Hollywood's requirements for liberal / leftist neoliberal propaganda. This film has a nice music score, good sound and great photography, showing the bleak and bare landscape the characters live in, and most importantly it thrives on showing how infinitely evil white people are, which is a prevalent theme for Hollywoods leftist propagandists of today.So, If you are a foreign filmmaker and want to follow in the steps of self hating whitey director Claudia Llosa, and you want to be noticed by the great (((people))) in Hollywood, here are the most important ingredients for foreign movie Oscar nomination :01 - Regurgitate the "Holocaust".. because we all know that there aren't enough Holocaust movies already.. This movie touches on this theme indirectly when we see the a portrait of an evil white man wearing a military uniform in the evil white woman's bedroom, because you know that all white people must be evil descendants of military white men, exploiters of native people around the world.02 - Show the differences in lifestyles between between non-white, native foreign populations and the inevitable evil, and very rich white people. In the case of this movie the main character, (who happens to actually look more white than most of her family) ends up working as a maid for an evil blonde white woman, who also happens to be very wealthy and it is never shown to be doing anything of any importance.. We all know that rich white people, have nothing but idle time in their hands, right?Later we find out, the rich and very evil white lady is a pianist and a composer, but we are never shown her practicing her piano playing or working on her music.. but why.. we all know that evil white people don't have to do any work, even in artistic fields, everything is handed over to them in a silver spoon. Brown people are the only ones who do ALL the work LOL03 - Show that white people are really evil, unjust and dishonest. As the movie develops, we notice that the rich white lady, is not only spoiled, she is also a thief who steals a melody that the main character sings and plays it in her piano concert.. just to remind the audience that white people have always been thieves and they have stolen everything they have from native people.. In the lowest point of the movie, the evil white lady throws the poor innocent native Indian woman out of her car when they are driving from the concert, after she makes a sarcastic remark, a plot twist that is just ridiculous and exaggerated. 04 - Marxist Feminism 101: Show that most men of all races are also just like white people.. They are EVIL. As if the "white people are evil" propaganda wasn't enough, the director also had to include some necessary "men are evil" propaganda, when the main character's drunk uncle tries to rape her, in the aftermath of her daughter's wedding.. another ridiculous and exaggerated plot twist.If you carefully examine all recent foreign Oscar nominated movies, you will find some of these elements present in the plot.. and this of course is no accident, as the (((people))) who run Hollywood know exactly what kind of anti-white propaganda to promote.

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valis1949

THE MILK OF SORROW (dir. Claudia Llosa) The central conceit or literary metaphor of this mesmerizing film is that mothers who have experienced the horror of rape pass along this trauma to their daughters through breast feeding. Fausta is a Peruvian peasant who has been deeply affected by this abnormal syndrome, and when her mother dies, the film documents Fausta's journey to bury her mother, and then confront and heal the psychological damage done to her by her mother's tragic past. The film has the tone of a hypnotic yet horrifying folk tale that explores the pagan or atavistic undercurrents within lower-class Peruvian society. Nominated for numerous international awards. MUST SEE.

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Abby Sawyer

La teta asustada (or Milk of Sorrow) tells the story of Fausta, a young woman who suffers from the indigenous sickness of being condemned to live in fear forever. Terrorists raped her mother while she was pregnant and imparted her fear to Fausta through her breast milk. The strange awkwardness of the story is uncomfortable at times, but the audience slowly adjusts. This is the famous magical realism that Latin America is known for: the mixing of reality and fantasy in such a way that the impossible starts to seem more and more normal and possible. Having lived and studied in Lima for ten months, although it doesn't make me an expert, I found the film to be an accurate portrayal of life in the impoverished suburbs of the capital city. Mostly indigenous people fleeing from the mountains where terrorism was threatening them settled these dusty settlements on the outskirts of Lima in the 80s and 90s. In these communities indigenous traditions are still practiced and cherished to this day, but as portrayed in the movie there is also the clash of cultures as the people struggle to integrate into the life of the big city of Lima. I enjoyed this movie because it reminded me of all things Peruvian: the scenery, the struggles, the mix of indigenous and modern cultures and the ever important role of the potato.

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