La identidad como un campo de batalla. La construcción del género en Marilyn, de Martín Rodríguez Redondo

Abstract

Based on the true story of the field pawn Marcelo Bernasconi, today Marilyn, the film that bears his name -Marilyn, Martín Rodríguez Redondo, 2018- follows, through a fictional narrative, the different instances that the protagonist goes through in the search for his gender identity. This journey has its decisive moment in prison, when -after killing his mother and brother-, finally, she can assume herself as a transvestite and begin to lead a life according to her choice. Beyond the tragic circumstances that such evolution entails in this particular case, the film gives an account of the complexities of any identity construction, which is never only gender or the result of a unique and univocal identification, but multiple and, often, plagued with antagonisms. Thus, the story confronts the future Marilyn with different male and female stereotypes, and different social roles, which mark different identities in which it can see not only the male / female dilemma, but also poor / rich; rural / urban; with access to a systematic education / lacking of it, among others. A construction that clearly appears as a process in which different representations and micro powers intervene, turning identity into a battlefield.