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“Aurora faces a situation that removes her, makes her change her mind and puts other challenges on her. But I wonder something: is it worth it to leave to dedicate herself only to work to send money? At what point do we think we can live in the midst of those conditions, without having time to breathe, to smile, to learn”, comments the actress Majida Issa who plays Aurora in the film that bears that name and is already in theaters in the country.
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The extraordinary is in the everyday, in what we have to face in South America when any of us decides to migrate to have better opportunities and living conditions.
“I think that it has happened to all of us at some point in life that we have a need that clouds everything else and we only work for that, making the sacrifices that are necessary, even if I have to work 24 hours, that I have no life or have the conditions. I start to think, is it worth it to be that way? I think not, at some point you have to take care of being happy, of having a life, of making an effort to learn the language. It’s complex because you leave all your root, you go to a new place and settle there, but you don’t make the effort to adopt it as your own,” says Majida who is remembered for her interpretations of Alejandra Guzmán and Helenita Vargas in the bioseries of the famous singers.
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Claudio Cataño plays Adolfo.
After 95 minutes of mixed emotions, a bittersweet taste remains: the proof that we can all be heroes and villains at different times in life and that it is difficult circumstances that normally force us to seek and reconsider the objectives. Aurora’s fate is very hard to accept; but in the process she will come across people and situations that will confront and inspire her. There is no better title for this film: Aurora means a new dawn.
“This can happen to any of us. It is not a movie full of special effects nor is it an extraordinary story. What is really extraordinary is in the everyday, in what we have to face in South America when any of us decides to migrate to have better opportunities and living conditions”, points out Majida.
SOFIA GOMEZ G.
CULTURE
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