Clip
taken from the film Yo, la peor de todas, directed by the late Argentine
film-maker María Luisa Bemberg in 1990, about the life of Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz (based on Octavio Paz's book
Sor Juana, o, las
trampas de la fe).
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| This clip shows Sor Juana's forced abjuration, and is from the end of the film. She is forced to read out a declaration of self-humiliation, and stumbles over the words. What happens next is perhaps the most shocking moment of the film, as Sor Juana's gaze, signifier of her intelligence and right of access to knowledge, is destroyed by her own hand. The words in the final shot, signed in blood, read "Yo, la peor de todas" (I, the worst woman of all), superimposed over a shot of her empty bookshelves. |
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