Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

THE MILK OF SORROW (dir. Claudia Llosa) The central conceit or literary metaphor of this mesmerizing film is that mothers who have experienced the horror of rape pass along this trauma to their daughters through breast feeding. Fausta is a Peruvian peasant who has been deeply affected by this abnormal syndrome, and when her mother dies, the film documents Fausta's journey to bury her mother, and then confront and heal the psychological damage done to her by her mother's tragic past. The film has the tone of a hypnotic yet horrifying folk tale that explores the pagan or atavistic undercurrents within lower-class Peruvian society. Nominated for numerous international awards. MUST SEE.

I have only to say, that I understand the people they say this film could be boring and slow, and, and, and.BUT, the only thing that the don't know, is the fact that, IF YOUR NOT RELATED WITH QUECHUA Language & THE INDIGUENOUS CULTURE OF PERÚ & SOUTHAMERICA, just LEAVE THIS FILM and please, DON'T GIVE A NEGATIVE REVIEW of a thing you just don't feel and understand.Cause all you don't really know, how sweet and beautiful sounds the Southern-Quechua Language, and how underrated it is in films, and the indigenous culture there too.I think, actually it is the first time, I heard the language in a movie, and the first time I heard it in a song at all. And because I come from Chile, this bring me ties to my roots and original culture, because I really didn't knew, how rich and beautiful it is. Brings me really goose bumps.So, please have a little respect, and If you don't feel it, just leave it, and be neutral. Al least, why do we have to understand or feel every movie in the world?

I couldn't believe that my review about this pitifully bad movie has been deleted by the THIRD TIME! by some outraged viewer that may only be the director herself or some neighbor of hers back in Lima, Perú.I'm really flattered.How can someone be as blind and narrow minded as to pretend that this is cinema, that this is A MOVIE...I never saw anything as mediocre and senseless as this so called PICTURE.The funny thing is that whoever deleted my comments only shows how terrified he/she is from any kind of criticism that could differ from his/her own. Never in my life I had dared to delete anybody's comments since I'm not the possessor of the only truth. I've always assumed that others may think quite differently and I accept that, since a different point of view may be offering me some new knowledge and I'm thankful for it.Many very long reviews explain exceedingly well, in minute detail, the story, the characters and what this movie is all about (not that much really). My review wasn't disrespectful or used forbidden words, since I only depicted the reality of Peruvians similar to the ones shown in this movie, and other Southamericans from the same social environment living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they came in search of greener fields and where very few of them found them.It seems that my censor didn't like my depiction of these people. Well, too bad, because just by going to the places that I mentioned anybody can see the sad reality of this marginal kind of living.But OK, since obviously Democracy and Freedom of Speech is just a figurative way of speaking, let's leave aside the social situation of certain social groups and let's talk about this movie...I couldn't stand more than half an hour of this contraption and just to check if I missed anything at all, I went full speed, stopping here and there to see the quality of the material, but the material never changed... to the bitter end... yes Sir..., I got to the very end of this... movie.Bad Camera work, bad direction, bad acting, bad everything.A pitiful waste of time (mine).

Fausta, the main character of "La teta asustada", has the disadvantages of being a woman, an Indian, and poor, in a society that in its essence is not too different from others in any corner of the world, no matter what the intelligentsia or UNESCO may say about social, economic, ethnic or gender vindication in the past century. Fastua's mother raised her according to quechua tradition and convinced her that she was infected with a disease called "the frightened tit", as a result of the mother being raped while carrying Fausta in her womb, and because she fed Fausta with her poisonous milk. Although she is very beautiful, the young Fausta has grown into a men-hating, always frightened, and laconic woman. She is also sick, because she has found a most revolting way to avoid rape. In part, the fact that Claudia Llosa belongs to the privileged, white (or not-Indian) sector of Peruvian society, works against her work, and a few of the incidences seem too foreign to her appreciation. Luckily, she slowly develops the story in settings and circumstances that do not seem completely real. Although based on facts, much of the action belongs to the realm of fantasy. You don't have to be a woman, an Indian or poor to appreciate this film (though it would help). It just takes a bit of sensibility and compassion. A good, necessary film.