ABSTRACT
The colleague had considered that, given the pubertal phase and some difficulties in dealing with severe symptoms and behaviour, Marcelino would require analytic work with a male analyst who, being also a psychiatrist, could somehow deal with the issue of medication. In the film, Marcelino endlessly searches for his mother, and eventually the statue of Christ, to whom Marcelino secretly donated bread and wine, thinking he was starving, comes to life because of this gesture and makes Marcelino peacefully die so that he can meet his mother in heaven. Marcelino arrived, at one week of age, exactly one year after his nameless brother's death, with the heavy burden of two unmourned losses in the adoptive mother's mind. The difficulties Marcelino had shown since his birth were therefore firmly regarded as connected to some genetically hardwired and inherited factor, the biological parents supposedly being mentally disturbed or addicts or criminals.
