Colombia’s tourism department won’t be sanctioning Víctor Gaviria‘s The Animal’s Wife anytime soon and I definitely will never be visiting to see how accurate a depiction of life there it proves. This film is two hours of sadism at the hands of Tito Alexander Gómez Arias‘ Libardo ‘Animal’ Ramírez. He rapes, maims, drinks, and rapes again while every village he inhabits turns a blind eye out of fear of repercussion. If I could jump through the screen, steal his Bowie blade, and slit his throat I would. It wouldn’t be for his prisoner of a fake wife Amparo Gómez (Natalia Polo) either. No, I’d do it for the simple satisfaction of not having to wait for the only ending Gaviria could possibly provide.
What is the message here? That the filmmaker’s homeland is a crime-ridden nightmare where honorable people are labeled cowards and victimized as monsters run amok?...
What is the message here? That the filmmaker’s homeland is a crime-ridden nightmare where honorable people are labeled cowards and victimized as monsters run amok?...
- 9/26/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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