This short film was very well done technically but it also had a powerful resonance with me, specially regarding some of the readings that we have done through the semester. Specially the ones about non monetary value of goods and inexchangeable objects.
Due to the change of setting in her life the little girl is given a crash course in class differences, a course in who is rich and what makes them different from her, the skis being the object that the filmmaker chose to show us that difference but it could have been any number of things.
Trying to fit in her new school and among her new classmates, the little girl doesn't care at all about the value that the skis may have, not even the symbolic value that they had because they belonged to her mother.It is a perfect metaphor for what happens with neoliberalism and the idea that economic behavior happens in a historical and cultural vacuum. If that were the case, What rationality has the act of throwing away something that you have and even more contracting debt to fulfil that function?
Yes, it is a little girl. But precisely for that the film leaves you with a bad taste. She shouldn't have been put in the place to make that decision to begin with.
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