{"id":197,"date":"2021-10-13T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/?p=197"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T20:28:05","slug":"thursdays-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/2021\/10\/13\/thursdays-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Thursday\u2019s Widows<\/em> demonstrates how a film can be just as effective as a detective fiction short story in making a statement about economic and sociocultural issues. As \u201cdetective fiction,\u201d I definitely found I wasn\u2019t as engaged in \u201csolving the mystery\u201d as I was when reading Borges or Berm\u00fadez, because I just knew that through no effort of my own the answer would be provided for me eventually &#8211; films naturally don\u2019t require as much \u201cwork\u201d as reading does. However, because of the use of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prolepsis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the film I nonetheless found myself looking for clues and suspicious characters over the course of the movie, because we discovered early in the film the location, means by which, and victims of the crime. As a \u201cliterary device\u201d in film form, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prolepsis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (foreshadowing?) was effective in providing intrigue from the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With respect to the genre and its broader meta-message, if we are to believe that the killers were in fact Tano, Gustavo and Mart\u00edn themselves, the movie strays from typical detective fiction in that there is really no detective figure central to the story. I think the absence of a glorified state personnel, like a detective or police officer, as a main character, definitely serves as a critique of the state itself &#8211; especially when we consider that these men committed suicide largely because of the state\u2019s actions (the collapsing economy). In this way, the film \u201cflips the script\u201d to demonize the state, whilst celebrating and sympathizing with the killers, much in the same way as Bermudez\u2019s Puzzle of the Broken Watch, where a police officer ends up being the killer. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s Widows demonstrates how a film can be just as effective as a detective fiction short story in making a statement about economic and sociocultural issues. As \u201cdetective fiction,\u201d I definitely found I wasn\u2019t as engaged in \u201csolving the mystery\u201d as I was when reading Borges or Berm\u00fadez, because I just knew that through no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,48,77,78,76,71],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-span312","tag-argentina","tag-detectivefiction","tag-economy","tag-film","tag-thursdayswidows","tag-week6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}