Mama

Mexico is one of the most violent countries against women in the world. Domestic abuse is worryingly common and the pandemic in 2020 increased the rate of parents being violent against their families during the lockdown. This short film explores that in a story about violence repeating and how we're used to it. How we, as a generation, grew seeing this as something we know is bad but we normalized and is so common that we're desensibilized. In the form of a fable, I didn't want this story to give the espectator an easy way out about these characters by putting two young girls instead of boys because the nuances of that makes you wonder, what will happen? If the children were boys we may think they will repeat their father's behaviour, but what about these girls? They're suppose to "fulfill the same role" at some point in life. Will they be violent? Will they be submissive? Will they see this as a normal thing and accept their partners as violent creatures? They grew seeing these women not as people, but as a role, and that's all they were teached to believe. They have a role and a purpose: to be mothers. Nothing else. And if that role is not accomplished they're not longer useful. This is that story, a story of women struggling against a terrifying fate.