The Complexity of a Mother’s Life: An analysis of Claudia Llosa’s film, Distancia de Rescate.

This research will examine the theme of a mother’s fear and desires and the techniques of sound and use of nature in Claudia Llosa's film Distancia de Rescate, 2021. Located in a rural town of Argentina, Llosa includes the country's personal attributes that play a part in the story's narrative, expanding on the themes of fear and desire. In my paper I talk about the complexities that come with being a mother. Examining the two mothers in the film, Amanda and Carola, I explore their growing relationship that begins to develop between them and their two children, Nina and David. Llosa highlights this new riveting relationship between Amanda and Carola, and it becomes known to the audience that something deeper is happening beyond the surface. I build upon prior analysis of this film, from scholar Andrea Meador Smith’s “Monstrous Desire in Samanta Schweblin’s and Claudia Llosa’s Distancia de rescate”. In the analysis by Smith, she writes; “Amanda’s memories, however, repeatedly return to her fascination with Carla and her constant preoccupation with Nina’s safety” (Smith 110). I identify the monstrous desires and unprecedented dangers that are following this mothers children. I seek to identify how a mothers own personal desires play a role in the safety of their children. Furthermore, analyzing how the mother’s in the film are in a constant state of measuring their children’s rescue distance to be there to save them from their own death.