Monday, February 22, 2010
"Kiss of a Spiderwoman" Heidy
In “Kiss of a Spiderwoman” Puig is drawing a line between an idealism and reality. Molina passes the time by telling Valentin the stories of his favorite movies in great detail. Valentin a Marxist revolutionary tends to criticize Molina’s melodramatic tales of romance. However, Valentin would listen as it would calm him down. It is not until the end when Valentin and Molina share a romance together that we realize that the tales Molina originally told where about them. The story about Benny and Vernin were indeed the love story of them. What made it magical realism between fallacy and reality is that Molina told the story exactly how it happened in real life, before it even occurred. This movie ended with Molina dying to help the love of his life. (reality) It also ended with Marta sailing away with Valentin, in which he said, “this dream is short but happy” (fantasy). This ending sums up the binary of reality and fantasy illustrated in this movie.
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In “Kiss of a Spiderwoman” Puig is drawing a line between an idealism and reality. Molina passes the time by telling Valentin the stories of his favorite movies in great detail. Valentin a Marxist revolutionary tends to criticize Molina’s melodramatic tales of romance. However, Valentin would listen as it would calm him down. It is not until the end when Valentin and Molina share a romance together that we realize that the tales Molina originally told where about them. In addition, it was interesting to see how personalities between the two changed throughout the movie. When Valentin first arrived at the cell he was very opinionated and tough. Molina was the sensitive hopeless romantic. Towards the end Velentin fell in love putting guard down and allowing Molina to become a part of his life. Molina was very brave in dying trying to help the love of his life. In my opinion, Puig was trying to illustrate that being men can be sensitive or tough but it doesn’t make them any less of a human being. Puig attacks this issue of gender roles by switching the gender roles of Molina and Valentin towards the end.
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