2023-09-21 08:08:00
The absurd comedy “Don’t break me”, which is released in cinemas, covers current issues around beauty standards, the world of fame and malpractice on the part of greedy surgeons with sharp humor, which turns it, although unintentionally, into a social satire and testimony of the times.
Starring by Carla Peterson, who plays a famous actress embarrassed in a public conflict with her ex-partner (Esteban Lamothe) who left her for another younger woman, and Julieta Diaz, in the role of a mother full of domestic tasks, the feature film 90 minutes directed by Azul Lombardía touches on deep themes of the local entertainment world situation despite having been originally mentioned six years ago.
This tragic timing following the death of Silvina Luna three weeks ago, a victim of malpractice resulting from a cosmetic operation, makes the effect of a crazy comedy with many humorous merits possibly converted in the eyes of the viewer into a less hilarious work with a social patinawhich may prevent the audience from laughing and enjoying the film as the work of fiction that it is.
The comedy of entanglements leads Peterson’s character to embark on an experimental beauty treatment to ensure that his face achieves eternal youth, by a black plastic surgeon, played by the Peruvian Salvador del Solar, who, in addition to being an actor, was President of the Council of Ministers of his country during the government of Martín Vizcarra and Minister of Culture in the administration of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
With a script by Sebastián Meschengieser, Alberto Rojas Apel and Jazmín Rodríguez Duca – who had the original idea for the film and also acts in the film -, the film also stars, among others, Martin Garabal, Eugenia Guerty, Celina Font, Alfonso Tort and special participations by Fito Páez, Nancy Dupláa and Cecilia Dopazo.
«The film talks a lot about the cultural mandate, about beauty and ‘aesthetic violence’. The death of Silvina Luna is a very sad situation; “It is an issue that has been happening to people in a worse economic situation, who have wanted to access it at any price and it gets complicated,” Julieta Díaz said in an interview conducted one day after the death of the Rosario model.
According to Carla Peterson, who was also part of the meeting with this agency at the headquarters of the film’s production company, “You cannot continue living a life with filters” and, regarding the film’s conclusions, he warned that “you cannot escape this speed and vertigo that the modern world proposes.”
In that sense, the Martín Fierro-winning actress recommended “seeing how to find your own path” after questioning whether “reality is a photo or an image.”
«It is a delicate situation and the film covers that topic with humor and from fiction. “Humor can deal with very serious or very deep topics,” Díaz added about the adverse context for the premiere of the production, to which her castmate pointed out: “This comedy deals with many deep topics, but perhaps the language or the way of trying to reach people is a little friendlier and more accepted by the public.
Peterson highlighted that both were looking to “go back to doing something that had a lot of humor and to do it you need a real theme, something serious, and the humor happens through everything around it as well: through the world that is created and the characters that are created, “Everything is exaggerated, but we already know that reality is stranger than fiction.”
«So, knowing that this is a real problem, beyond what just happened, this was already an issue before: it was always an issue but not only the aesthetic but how a structure was sustained for a long time in which no one anymore enters. The world and a lot of things have changed and we have to accept them and see how we can make it easy, kind and close to everyone,” said the interpreter of the strip “Lalola” (2007).
– Do you think the latest events give new meaning to the film?
Julieta Díaz: There is something about that: everything is resignified but it will never stop being a comedy, because it is fiction. Very unfair things happen all the time that we all wish were different, and the film fights for that not from a light place but from a bright place because it makes people come to have fun, to laugh, and it leaves you thinking a lot.
Carla Peterson: Obviously this colors absolutely everything, because we feel deep pain, it is great sadness. Something terrible happened. In the film we made a commitment: we think a lot about everything we say because it is a way to reach many people. We all know the things that happen every day when we follow this type of ideal of perfection, which we know does not exist. But we still try and diet and continue, but we know that it is not going to be that way and we miss out on experiencing how beautiful life is. Things that take us to these very strange places, not only aesthetically, but running behind time, things, success, what we have to be… that you are going crazy and life has passed you by. My character does not want to have children and it is difficult for her to make others understand, because not everything has to be as they tell us and that happens every day because women were born believing these things.
JD: Women already feel bad, and what the film does is precisely reflect that, give it a thousand thoughts, laugh at it, break it into a thousand pieces, break it down, open it, show it, exhibit the complicities that we all have with it and explode it. That’s the game the movie plays, because humor can do that. And there is an issue with current events: when we started the project we thought that anything we did in a while was going to be behind schedule because everything happens so quickly. It is a symbol of the times and in a lot of things the film reflects it from a very honest place and is risky, modern and plays it safe in many ways.
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