Synopsis(from wikipedia) :
The film takes place in the small town of La Ciénaga, at the Hotel Termas, a dilapidated Argentine hotel, during a medical conference. Two young teenage girls, Amalia (María Alché) and her best friend Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg), begin to explore their new sexuality and, at the same time, have Catholic religious passion. Amalia lives with her attractive divorced mother (Mercedes Morán), who owns the hotel, and her uncle Freddy (Alejandro Urdapilleta). During this time, in Amalia's mind, spiritual and sexual impulses are seeming to converge.
One day, in the midst of a large crowd watching the performance of a musician playing the theremin, Dr. Jano (Carlos Belloso), a participant in the conference and hotel guest, rubs up sexually against Amalia. She is upset but takes his inappropriate action as a sign that her Catholic faith has given her a mission: to save Dr. Jano from such inappropriate behavior. Afterward, the object of Amalia's desire becomes the married middle-aged doctor and she begins to spy on him. Amalia's story is partly about an adolescent girl's discovery of her sexual vulnerability and the sexual power she possesses.
The importance of water in this movie:
When I read the title of the holy girl, the first thing that cross in my mind is holy water. Holy water is used for the purpose of baptism, to bless the persons or things or even to repel the evil. I think The Holy Girl might mean carry the same purpose but instead of using water, it changes to the girl. In this movie, the water is depicted in the form of pool. The thermal pool in the hotel is the place where all the characters spend their time swimming and socializing. The director used the thermal pool instead of the ‘normal’ swimming pool as to shows that the water for thermal pool is not stagnant but always flowing into and out of the pool. This water shows that people are free to do anything.
In this scene, Amalia was torn between her religious and sexual feeling. The rippling water in the pool shows her fluctuating feelings at that time.
The film ends where Amalia and Josefina were happily floating in the water shows how the life is so ambiguous that we don’t know how it will end.
My opinion for this movie:
In my opinion, this movie is a watchable movie but i would not recommend it to the people. In this movie, the audience need to focus on every single acts of the actors/actress because this is the way that the director use to convey the messages. Martel shows instead of telling the audience of what she wants. This movie is like an open ended question where there is no exact ending for it. It is open for the audience to interpret it.
My opinion for this movie:
In my opinion, this movie is a watchable movie but i would not recommend it to the people. In this movie, the audience need to focus on every single acts of the actors/actress because this is the way that the director use to convey the messages. Martel shows instead of telling the audience of what she wants. This movie is like an open ended question where there is no exact ending for it. It is open for the audience to interpret it.
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