Introduction to Argentine New Realism, or Social Realism. In pairs, answer the following questions about Mundo Grua.
Analytical
1. Why did Trapero make this film?
2. Write a very brief synopsis of the plot. Make sure you describein full the main character. This films is the story of...
3. What issues or themes was Trapero drawing attention to in this film?
4. What themes are represented by some of the minor characters? Claudio, Rulo's son Adriana, the woman who runs the kiosco. Torres, the foreman at the construction site?
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2- The film Mundo Grua directed by Trapero is about the story of the simple life of Rulo, a pretty simple and common worker class man who lives in Buenos Aires and since he was unemployed , his friend Torres got him a job as a construction worker since he doesn’t have enough money to achieve his dreams, or even to invite a woman out which are the simple things he want in life.
ReplyDelete3- The main themes and issues that Trapero draws attention in his film is the `pursuit of happiness´ of the working or middle class people in Argentina, he communities this with the main character, Rulo.
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1) Low budget
ReplyDeleteHe wanted to represent the aspect of society in which he lived, thus no one thought about making a movie on this aspect, so he was quite innovative.
2) The film tells the story of Rulo, who is willing to be a crane worker/operator, but he lacks the skills to do it. During the movie, he falls in love with a ‘kioskera’, Adriana, who was in the 70’s a fan of Rulo’s band. When Rulo finally starts to work in the construction, the Doctor forbids Rulo to keep on working, because of his health; meanwhile, Torres gets him an interview for a new job in the Patagonia, which forces him to leave behind his family and love. Finally the movie ends when Rulo announces he’s coming back to Buenos Aires to be with their friends and family.
3) UNEMPLOYMENT
MISSERY
LACK OF EDUCATION
WORKING CLASS LIFE
SUDDEN END….
1- We think that Trapero did this film because he had to do a really good movie with low budget to be a recognized film director. He was forces to reduce his costs to the minimum. That is why he chose close friends as actors and local settings. And social realism is a very adequate genre for a movie with these limitations because some setting or extras costs do not exist.
ReplyDelete2- Rulo is fat forty-year old working calss man. At the start of the movie he is applying for a construction worker job. When he finally thought that he was going to get the job, the same day that he was going to start, he finds out that his spot was already taken, so he gets no job. He finds a construction worker employment in Comodoro Rivadavia, a city that is located many kilometers away from Buenos Aires, where Rulo lives. He decides to leave Buenos Aires, but he is troubled because he must leave behind his house, friends, and his new girlfriend that he met in a kiosko buying her a milanguche de sangunesa (with mayonnaise). In Comodoro Rivadavia, there were problem with lunch deliveries so the workers started to refuse working. He decides to come back and the film ends there.
3- We think that Trapero wanted to represent the reality of the working Argentine classes of that time. The director wanted to represent the difficulties that working people might have to find a job, raise an adolescent child and reorganize their love life after the divorce.
1. Trapero made this film because he was inspired in the construction of a building that he could watch through his window. After seeing that everyday, he ended up knowing a lot about machines and construction. He learned the vocabulary and lots of things that afterwards he used in the movie. He tries to show the social life of someone who’s been educated in the working culture, and has to survive in a place where there is unemployment.
ReplyDelete2. This film is the story of a man which attempts to make things up with life after losing his job. The main character is called “Rulo”. He’s a construction worker, who loses his job, and begins to look for one to be able to maintain himself and his family. Claudio is Rulo’ son, Torres is the foreman at the construction site and Adriana is the woman who runs the kiosk.
3. The main problem that Trapero wants to communicate is the difficult situation that most men suffer at this time, which is losing a job.
4. Mainly unemployment.
1.Trapero did this movie to illustrate working reality and workingclass lifestyle. Futhermore, he tries to make the audience aware of Argentinian working problems.
ReplyDelete2.This film is the story of Rulo´s struggle to find a decent job. He is a middle age man with health problems that decreses his capabilities to work. After he could not get a job at Buenos Aires, he travelled to Comodoro Rivadavia. His life conditions where very precarious. His son, Caludio, spends his time being a bass player in an unknown rock band. He and his grandmother where very worried about Rulo´s life because they couldn´t comunicate with him. When he met his friends Torres and Walter, he realized that he should go back to Buenos Aires where he would be with his loved ones.
3. The main issues that Trapero tried to evocate on his film where the problems of insuficient education, poor quality of workers and unreliable professionals, which are common in Argentina.
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ReplyDelete1- Trapero decided to create a film such as Mundo grua to potray a tipically working class situation in Argentina and its reality components.
2- Mundo grua creates a character named Rulo, which struggles to find a job in Buenos Aires city. Rulo is a middle age man who finally finds a job as a crane operator. He has a teenager son involved in a rock band having economical difficulties and need help from his father. Rulo’s situation creates tension all through Mundo grua until he finally stablelises as he receives a job opportunity in South America, specifically Patagonia. Finally after problems and life complication, Rulo comes back to Buenos Aires to carry on with his life.
4- Different minor characters in Mundo Grua represent diverse themes. For instance, Adriana, the woman who runs the ‘kiosco’, connotes the distraction and love in a working man in Buenos Aires. Furthermore, Rulo’s son represents the rebellious young society…
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1. Why did Trapero make this film?
The reason why Trapero made this film, is because he wanted to show the socio economic situation of the country, by the unemployness, and in the worker class, the relationships with their superiors, and their bad conditions of working, and reflect the insecurity of Buenos Aires.
2. Write a very brief synopsis of the plot. Make sure you describe in full the main character. This film is the story of...
Rulo who is a divorsed man, that has one teenage son (Claudio) who works with a crane. He works with dignity while his life is quite hard. He has only few months of happiness. Tries to maintain his miserable apartment, and deal with unemployment.
3. What issues or themes was Trapero drawing attention to in this film?
Trapero develops the themes of unemployment, insecurity, disparities, family conflict, politic, fears, desires and feelings of a simple life.
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2. The film tells the story of Rulo, a middle class man who tries to keep his life from falling apart in an Argentina were it is very difficult to have a stable job. All he wants is to achieve his ordinary and humble dreams which are having a job to afford taking Adriana to the movies, and that his son Claudio matures.
ReplyDelete3.The imposibility of achieving humble dreams.
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ReplyDelete1) We think that Trapero made this film in order to show the typical argentine working class life-style. Also by this mean he tries to show how cruel the life of this working class can be. We understand that he tries to criticize the modern society in those times, portraying by this means, the life of a migrant contract worker.
2) This film like said before, is the story of a migrant contract worker which struggles in the underground society of the Argentina in 1999. The main character is Rulo, a mature unemployed man that later on tries to keep up with the portenian rhythm by searching for a job. Later on when he realizes that he cant work in the company due to medical deficit, but fortunately his friend Torres says to him that down in the Patagonia there is an available job, that later on ends up again in total failure, since all of the workers are released, and he sees him self obliged to come back to the cruel Buenos Aires.
3) He was trying to portray the typical problems that may face a typical low or working class man, which are poverty and uncertainty. He tries to develop this themes by capturing the true essence of an argentine working class man, that looks to fit inside a country with good living standards, but that actually doesn’t gives them, one has to fight for them.
4) Claudia: By this character Trapero tries to show how present the theme of poverty and uncertainty is. She is a typical argentine women that works humbly, to survive in a inflationary country that gives few almost none, opportunities.
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2-This film is the story of an ex bass player of a well known rock band who desperately needs a job and a friend of him manages to get him a job in a construction site, in a crane but his wealth is not okay enough to work there. Rulo, the protagonist has a son with whom he has a not so good relationship, Rulo’s son eventually moves to his grandmother’s house. Rulo meets a woman and invites to a date with her, after a couple of days they start to date but the lack of jobs obliges Rulo to go to the Patagonia to look for a job where he starts working as a bulldozer driver, after a couple of months he receives a call from his son and he goes back to Buenos Aires where the movie ends.
ReplyDelete1&3-Trapero made this film to reflect the reality of the working class in Argentina and the tyranny of the society with those that have no special ability; it also shows the fugacity of success the persistence of those that fail.
1 – Trapero made the film to just do a film.
ReplyDelete2 - Rulo, a middle aged man from middle class status is struggling to find a job in Buenos Aires city. He finds a job as a crane operator, but soon gets replaced because of health issues. In order to obtain a job he soon travels to a remote city in Patagonia, Comodoro Rivadavia were he experiences abilities to operate a bulldozer for a couple of months. After experiencing an operating job working as a bulldozer, he gains the experiences wanting to start a new life in Buenos Aires, wanting to start a new life.
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ReplyDelete1- We think that Trapero did this film because he had to do a really good movie with low budget to be a recognized film director. He was forces to reduce his costs to the minimum. That is why he chose close friends as actors and local settings. And social realism is a very adequate genre for a movie with these limitations because some setting or extras costs do not exist.
ReplyDelete2- Rulo is fat forty-year old working calss man. At the start of the movie he is applying for a construction worker job. When he finally thought that he was going to get the job, the same day that he was going to start, he finds out that his spot was already taken, so he gets no job. He finds a construction worker employment in Comodoro Rivadavia, a city that is located many kilometers away from Buenos Aires, where Rulo lives. He decides to leave Buenos Aires, but he is troubled because he must leave behind his house, friends, and his new girlfriend that he met in a kiosko buying her a milanguche de sangunesa (with mayonnaise). In Comodoro Rivadavia, there were problem with lunch deliveries so the workers started to refuse working. He decides to come back and the film ends there.
3- We think that Trapero wanted to represent the reality of the working Argentine classes of that time. The director wanted to represent the difficulties that working people might have to find a job, raise an adolescent child and reorganize their love life after the divorce.
4) Claudia: By this character Trapero tries to show how present the theme of poverty and uncertainty is. She is a typical argentine women that works humbly, to survive in a inflationary country that gives few almost none, opportunities.
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1) I think that Trapero did this film to demonstrate the simplicity of an argentinian worker (Rulo), his family and his love affairs, with a very low budget.
ReplyDelete2)This film is the story of Rulo, an argentinan worker, that wants to work to have a more wealthy life, but he lacks the skills to do it.
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