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Trans Cinema Secondary Reading
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Castillo on desire | “the imperative of desire occurs in the fishbowl of the visual, what is seen and what is not seen of the actors’ bodies, and by whom” |
| Castillo on the self's truth | “The imperative to see, which in the film substitutes for the desire to know, does not reveal the body’s physical conformation or the self’s truth” |
| Castillo on the location | Uruguayan coast as a “borderline ‘mundo raro’” |
| Zamostny on the doctor's imposition | “medicalized violence” |
| Zamostny on the ending with Álvaro | “She internalizes others’ objectification of her body and offers herself as a target for Álvaro’s gaze.” |