Give your thoughts in combination with the following two paragraphs
The essays, La niña santa: horror, ambivalence, femininity by Deborah Martin and Battle with history: Carlos Reygadas and the cinema of being by Michael Cramer discuss the power of films in presenting the cultural, social and religious aspects of human life. Deborah Martin discusses the life of Amalia, as presented in the film, La niña santa, who explores her sexual awakening as a teenager. Amalia lives with her mother Helena in a hotel that has seen better days. This essay revolves around the perception of senses which are touching, feeling, smelling, and particularly, hearing. The senses bring out the haptic element of cinema which emphasizes the multisensory endowment of culture. The essay comments that the film presents Amalia as a teenager who attempts to understand the Catholicism teachings and her sexual desires. the film appears to challenge the cultural categories o hetero and homosexuality.
The other essay discusses Reygadas’s films which are known for canonical works of art cinema. According to the essay, Reygadas is compared to other famous film directors such as Rossellini, Dreyer, and Kiarostam. Besides, the Cramer also states that Reygadas films offer specific privileges for his audience. This makes it possible for the struggle between cinema of being and history is illustrated and analyzed. One of the evidence for this claim is that Reygadas aligns his films with the idea of cinema common to Epstein. Implicitly, Reygadas presents ideologies that are misunderstood in society in the perspective of other theorists. This is intended to clear doubts and misconceptions. Reygadas films presents reality and its innate beauty as reachable outside of preexisting frameworks of interpretations. This are accessed through experience instead of thought and imaginations.
