The Milk Of Sorrow directed by Claudia Llosa is a story based on a girl who is in the middle of a family and medical struggle. Doctors think she faints and bleeds because there is potato growing in her vagina. Her uncle, who serves as her guardian, believes she faints whenever she gets scared or uncomfortable and that she inherited this from the tainted breast milk of her mother. Her mothers milk was told to be contaminated by fear and sorrow because she was raped and abused 6 months into her pregnancy.
The shot type changes often in this film, going from a still wide angle to extremely close up tracking dolly. The cinematographer did something ver interesting when tracking the min character; when she entered unknown territory the frame was extremely blurry excluding her face, this puts you in as much wonder and anticipation as she felt and makes her anxiety more relatable. The sounds in the film were ale very vivid. For example the nail gun and the sound of scissors and screaming children outside.
