Cria Cuervos Cria Cuervos is a film following the protagonist, eight year old Ana through the troubles of coping with her mother and father’s deaths and adjusting to her new life with her aunt, maid, and mute grandmother. Following the recent death of her mother and father, she imagines them in her everyday life in everyday situations for comfort, especially her mother. Along with her parents showing up in the film unpredictably, so does adult Ana narrating certain moments sharing her retrospective perspective. The film has scenes that show Ana the relationship between her mother and father along with the moments shared between her and her sisters growing up in such a short summer. Two of the main themes in this film are about gender roles within the house, even after her father is gone, and childhood and the negative effect loss and familial problems can have on it. …show more content…
One example of this is how Ana’s mother gave up her promising career of being a pianist to care for her daughters at home and to remain in a loveless marriage due to her fear of failure. Additionally Ana’s father is said to have had “wandering hands,” meaning he gave physical affection to other women than his wife, like in the scene where he was touching the maid’s breasts through the window. Also, in the opening scene, it shows Ana watching as her father is gasping for his last breath and then cleans the glass on his bedside table. Later in the film it shows adult Ana expressing that she thought all of her mother’s pain was caused by her father, so she poisoned him (or so she was convinced). This shows that Ana had knew about their parents marital problems and that she grew up resenting her father for how he treated her