We're introduced to the weeping woman in The Curse of La Llorona as a mother who, centuries prior, murdered her own children. While The Curse of La Llorona uses the ghost as the monster, La Llorona makes the humans the monsters, ignoring the painful and disturbing ghosts of past sins. RELATED: Captain Marvel 2 Recruits Candyman Director Nia DaCosta Who is the Monster?īoth films take the general story of the crying ghost woman and apply them in very different ways. On the other hand, in La Llorona, we realize that the ghost, if there even is one, might be the hero of the story. We're supposed to want to see them survive and escape the ghost's clutches.
However, the difference here is that we're supposed to like the main characters in The Curse of La Llorona.
Both feature foreigners interacting in a society they do not fully understand, and, in both cases, the caseworker and general's actions result in people dying. Now an old man, the general faces constant protests outside his home while his family struggles to deal with the general's legacy, all while an enigmatic housemaid begins working at the home.īoth films deal with the clashes of foreign cultures coming into contact with each other. The elderly patriarch of the family is a former Guatemalan general who, decades prior, was responsible for the mass genocide of native people. La Llorona, by contrast, is a modern-day story of a single family. It's another narrative of a foreign entity invading our home, capitalizing on the harmful trope of the Other. The movie is a ghost story that takes the Latin American ghost of La Llorona and brings it to the United States of America. Her actions fail to save the lives of two other children, but also set her own children in the sights of the malevolent spirit. The Curse of La Llorona tells the story of a caseworker whose actions inadvertently draw the Weeping Woman La Llorona, who murders and drowns children, into her life.
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