From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers ... in many ways a comment on cinema itself and a mockery of its shallow and conventional methods. Therefore, this movie's scopophilic nature can be seen as subversive commentary on the role of women ...

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