La Virgen de los Sicarios: From Novel to Filme

A comparative reading of the screemplay and novel evoques the conclusion that the film represents a process of extension, suppresion, and even embellishment of essential elements within the novel. These digressions bring about a transformation that fundamentally destroys the aesthetic purpose and ideological scope of the literary text. The film adaptation operates as an ethical-aesthetic sieve to produce a text that is no only different, but that in certain aspects contradicts the original.