Out of the Closet, Into the Fire: The trans protagonist demonstrates her newfound bravery by accepting a suicide mission to pass a message to political revolutionaries.Narm Charm: Molina's second film is an in-universe example.Valentin gets this too by everyone except Molina (see Meaningful Name). Last-Name Basis: Molina is rarely called Luis.Genre Shift: After Molina is let out on good behavior the novel is told through a series of reports and documents.Downer Ending: Molina dies and Arregui continues to be tortured.The same thing occurs in the movie, with the protagonist becoming a homosexual cis man. Bury Your Gays: The trans woman protagonist demonstrates her newfound bravery by accepting a suicide mission to pass a message to political revolutionaries.Bring My Brown Pants: Very embarrassingly happens to Valentin after eating poisoned food.Banana Republic: The country the story is set in note Argentina in the novel and musical, Brazil in the film is a dictatorship that imprisons sexual minorities and “disappears” its political opposition.Subverted when Valentin agrees to sleep with Molina. Molina loves the waiter, and later Valentin, both of whom are straight. All Love Is Unrequited: Valentin's girlfriend loves Valentin who loves Marta.
Has nothing to do with any of the Spider-Woman characters published by Marvel Comics. Cue moral dilemmas, political statements and gay angst. Just one problem: Molina has fallen in love with Valentin. It is later revealed that Molina was imprisoned with Valentin to spy on him in the hope that he will open up to Molina, using the film as a way of getting him to talk. Naturally, the Film Within a Film is draped with metaphors and symbolism relating to the two characters. that also happens to be a Nazi propaganda film. Molina passes the time by describing her favorite movies: the most prominent ( and the only one featured in the film) being a romance story of star-crossed lovers. Set in a Banana Republic (Argentina in the novel and musical, Brazil in the film), the story follows the imprisonment of Luis Molina ( William Hurt in the film), a trans woman who was caught corrupting a minor, and political prisoner Valentin Arregui ( Raúl Juliá in the film), who is part of a leftist revolutionary group trying to overthrow the military dictatorship and is currently being tortured for information. It was later adapted into a film in 1985 and a musical in 1993. Kiss of the Spider Woman was originally a 1976 novel by gay Argentinian writer Manuel Puig.
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