The director of the film, Hector Babenco, criticized the status quo of society, but at the same time challenged traditional ideas. Elevate humanitarianism to a realm that transcends sexual orientation, political ideals, and ideology.
The film has a multi-layered narrative structure and is a work involving homosexuality and power politics
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The movie "Spider Woman", like the original novel, has been compressed to a minimum in terms of time, space, characters, and plot. All the drama is performed between two completely different prisoners in a small common space. Although neither of these prisoners are accommodated by their society, they are not fellow travelers. In the cell where there is only room for turning around, Molina uses memories and narrations to entertain himself and escape fantasy, but his narration has become the only medium of communication between the two strangers
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