Argentinian filmmaker Luis Ortega’s latest feature tells the story of a man whose sense of self transforms following a horse racing accident.
“It’s not for us.” Anyone who has ever pitched a movie has heard those words. But when Luis Ortega was looking for financing for his latest feature, the surrealist, gender-bendingIt didn’t matter that Ortega’s work had been making waves in Argentine cinema since his first feature, 2003’s, about a jockey whose identity — already fragmented by trauma, drugs and alcohol — repeatedly transforms following a racing accident and its accompanying head injury, was just too esoteric.
“In a way, every character is a prison. No matter what character you build, you’re caught; you’re caught up in some kind of definition of what that character is,” Ortega says. “So I believe you have to kill every single one of your characters to be free.”. In the book, a university professor named Darrell Standing is serving a life sentence in San Quentin State Prison and is made to wear “the jacket,” a painful compression device that real-life prisoners were made to wear as punishment.
“He’s in ecstasy because, he said, ‘They can’t kill my immortality, they can’t strangle my immortality, no matter how much they torture me,’ ” Ortega says. “And I thought that was so great. I thought that that’s what happens with . It kind of converts into this character where he’s a man, he’s a jockey, he’s a drug addict, he’s a man, he’s a drifter, he’s a woman, he’s the mother of those kids in the street — all those possibilities are real and true.Danielle Directo-Meston.
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