Resumen de Representations of Violence in Icíar Bollaín's Te doy mis ojos

Richard K. Curry

• The very title of the award-winning film by Icíar Bollaín, Te doy mis ojos (2003), establishes the metaphor for the film�s interplay between love and violence. On the one hand, the filmic discourse offers clear evidence of the love that exists in the marriage of Pilar and Antonio, a marriage stressed by domestic violence. On the other, the invitation �Te doy mis ojos� is pronounced by Pilar as her attempt to get her husband see their desperate situation resultant from the metonymically represented violence. Read from these perspectives, the film assumes importance as social commentary, and it acquires a heroic and historical character. It is heroic and historical in its thematics of gender violence. It is heroic in its outcome which responds to a non-traditional, feminist ethics. And, the film is heroic in its choices for the representation of violence.