Watching Sin Nombre and subsequently reading De Camino al Ahorita, connections between the two stories were inevitable. Both concern border crossing, being nameless is inherent to both stories and the emotions and reasons for crossing make the stories more personal that one would have imagined. When creating these stories, I wonder if the writers took from personal experience or did laborious amounts of research. Adding a personal touch to a work of art, makes it more than a work of creativity. It makes it an expression of one's experience.
In regards to Dorantes piece, the idea of performance came into my mind. By creating 6 characters and having the Hombres and officer be the alter ego or expression of the voices, creates an eerie self-reflexive tone about the piece. More importantly the idea of performance is obvious in regards to the officer who tries to project himself as something other than an "illegal" as hombre A calls him incessantly. Creating new identities for one self is what this play plays on and not giving the characters' names, allows for their identities to be stripped of them and to create new ones for themselves.
Was the issue of identity as overt in Sin Nombre and why did Fukunaga entitle Sin Nombre, as such? Additionally, was the issue of identity in Sin Nombre a result of the border, or just Willy's conflicting feelings?
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