La Llorona - 2019 - 6/10
She pushes through the mob of demonstrators, past the police barricade, the new maid.
The regime of the military dictator is over, and although his mind is slipping, he is on trial for war crimes.
Family members pray for a “just’ verdict.
Family are, of course, “ignorant” of his methods used to find and exterminate guerrilla insurgents.
Slow boil story of unsettled spirits and, perhaps, reckonings.
I found the latter aspect difficult to swallow. For me, the bad sleep well and are rarely punished.
I bear witness to misdeeds daily, in the office, in the checkout lane, in the news.
Justice? Karma? Constructs that serve to barely keep impulses restrained.