Carne (1968 film)
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| - | [[File:Víctor Bó e Isabel Sarli en Carne.jpg|thumb|[[Víctor Bó]] and [[Isabel Sarli]] as Antonio and Delicia.]] | ||
| *[[Isabel Sarli]] as Delicia | *[[Isabel Sarli]] as Delicia | ||
| *[[Víctor Bó]] as Antonio Aicardi | *[[Víctor Bó]] as Antonio Aicardi | ||
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| *[[Oscar Valicelli]] as Jacinto | *[[Oscar Valicelli]] as Jacinto | ||
| *Pepita Muñoz as a worker | *Pepita Muñoz as a worker | ||
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| - | [[File:Isabel Sarli en Carne 1968 IV.jpg|thumb|Delicia (Sarli) about to be raped in a truck where she was abducted by her co-workers.]] | ||
| - | Writers Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela characterized the film as having "black and white [[footage]] without any explanation, [[red]] as the dominant color and [[Camp (style)|camp]] carried to its ultimate consequences."<ref name="diccionario">{{cite book|last=Manrupe|first=Raúl|last2=Portela|first2=María Alejandra|year=2001|title=Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995)|language=Spanish|location=Buenos Aires|page=95|isbn=950-05-0896-6|publisher=Ediciones Corregidor}}</ref> Throughout the film, the female body is [[Objectification|objectified]] as "a piece of meat", featuring overlays of images of [[Primal cut|cuts of meat]] and Sarli's body.<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15">Drajner Barredo, 2016. p. 15</ref> Writer Tamara Drajner Barredo felt that "this identification of the female body with the meat has as a correlate an identification of the sexual desire with an animalized and irrational carnal desire."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15"/> This is made explicit in the final dialogue, in which Antonio tells Delicia that they raped her "to satisfy the animal instinct that we all carry inside. But without soul, without love."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15"/> Bó always maintained that his films dealt with social issues, evident in early films such as ''[[Thunder Among the Leaves]]'' from 1958 and ''Sabaleros'' from 1959.<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15"/> However, this intention of social criticism and [[Realism (arts)|realism]] of his first films was diluted as the director and Sarli acquired national and international recognition, replacing them with traditional [[melodrama]], [[Crime film|crime]] and [[picaresque]], where the erotic scenes "acquired their own autonomy."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15"/> Nevertheless, in a 1974 interview for magazine ''Siete Días'' Bó still claimed that his films "deal with social issues, but since Isabel acts in them, sex has implications in the argument."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo15"/> The social problem depicted in ''Carne'' is that of violence; it might even be argued that the film seeks to draw attention to [[violence against women]].<ref name="DrajnerBarredo16">Drajner Barredo, 2016. p. 16</ref> In this matter, Bó stated: | ||
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| - | What was inside that truck was not a person. It was meat, nothing but meat. Because if those guys had seen the soul, the suffering of that woman, they would not have done it. I tried to make a parameter, between the meat that we consume every day and the meat as a sexual object.<ref name="DrajnerBarredo16"/> | ||
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| - | In addition to violence, [[love]] plays a leading role in the film: it appears a common thread that "moves the protagonists to be together, to have sexual relations, to express their desires, and it is also what allows Delicia to move forward despite the rapes."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo16"/> This is explicitly the message that Bó wanted to give with the film, with a text reading at the conclusion: "The true pure love, without concessions, and the goodness of God will triumph over the violence and the wave of [[Fear|terror]] that invades the world."<ref name="DrajnerBarredo16"/> With ''Carne'', on the one hand, Bó seeks to denounce the violence and drama to which the worker is subjected and, on the other, to exalt the values of [[Family values|family]], [[progress]], work and love.<ref name="DrajnerBarredo16"/> | ||
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| - | ''Carne'' inaugurated a new era of "excess" in Bó and Sarli's filmography.<ref name="Cinemas43">Wolf, Pailler (translation), 1999, p. 43</ref> | ||
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| *[[Exploitation film]] | *[[Exploitation film]] | ||
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Carne (English: Meat) is a 1968 Argentine sexploitation film written and directed by Armando Bó. It stars Isabel Sarli as Delicia, a worker in a meat-packing factory where she becomes the victim of rapists.
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Cast
- Isabel Sarli as Delicia
- Víctor Bó as Antonio Aicardi
- Romualdo Quiroga as Humberto "el macho"
- Vicente Rubino as a homosexual
- Juan Carlos Altavista as José García
- Alba Solís as a singing worker
- Oscar Valicelli as Jacinto
- Pepita Muñoz as a worker
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See also
- Exploitation film
- 1968 in film
- List of Argentine films of 1968
- Nudity in film
- Rape and revenge film
- Sex in film
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