- Based on a true story. Fear emerges in the most unexpected situations. In your childhood dream world can drag you into a delusional abyss. Meanwhile, no one around you is aware of your suffering. Did you ever feel alone? Fear. Something as inherent in human beings that is apparent in the childhood. As the two children of The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) at the disturbing presence of the false preacher whose knuckles of both hands have written separately the words love and hate. A binomial floating in the atmosphere ALMAmATER. A silent scream that seems to be invisible to others but the little girl materializes through gesture, drawing, eyes, as when she contemplates the drop in a glass in a tarkovskian sequence.—Anonymous
- ALMAmATER Did you ever feel alone?
Fear. Something as inherent in human beings that is apparent in the childhood. As the two children of The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) at the disturbing presence of the false preacher whose knuckles of both hands have written separately the words love and hate. A binomial floating in the atmosphere ALMAmATER. A silent scream that seems to be invisible to others but the little girl materializes through gesture, drawing, eyes, as when she contemplates the drop in a glass in a tarkovskian sequence. The girl rebels against the world to imagine and create a new one, for fear of being displaced from its tiny microcosm that for her is the center of the universe, which gives her security.
But there is no intention to give an explanation, although the film is based on a true story and show some facts from the perspective of the documentary. The human being is a complex entity which does not enter the world of logic. Therefore, the camera is limited to only capture what happens in that atmosphere permeated with emotions, watching his protagonist, but also objects, her objects, reflections of his physical existence, as made clear John Huston in Dubliners (1987), when the old woman sings a song and he shows while she sings, the goods that have been part of her life, the only visible evidence that defines her biography. These ideas and many more are floating in the images of ALMAmATER, but they are issues that have been left open, for everyone to draw their own conclusions. As Luis Buñuel they said in his book "My Last Sigh", when asked in a press conference that was what the box contained an oriental group of girls brothel: each viewer must interpret in his own way.
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