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    She Is Tired of Departures That She Herself Wants To Depart

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    The film Lola Igna is about a centenarian midwife in a small town who becomes a candidate for the world's oldest living grandmother. While her longevity is exploited for capitalist gain, she compromises her privacy for the tourists that come to town. The film explores themes of death in a community that fears it, as Lola claims to be ready for death after outliving her family. She is tired from the fleeting nature of life around her and desires permanence in death. Ultimately, the film shows how connections between people can give life meaning, and a newborn baby brings renewed perspectives on embracing life rather than constantly desiring an escape from it through death.

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    She Is Tired of Departures That She Herself Wants To Depart

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    The film Lola Igna is about a centenarian midwife in a small town who becomes a candidate for the world's oldest living grandmother. While her longevity is exploited for capitalist gain, she compromises her privacy for the tourists that come to town. The film explores themes of death in a community that fears it, as Lola claims to be ready for death after outliving her family. She is tired from the fleeting nature of life around her and desires permanence in death. Ultimately, the film shows how connections between people can give life meaning, and a newborn baby brings renewed perspectives on embracing life rather than constantly desiring an escape from it through death.

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    The film Lola Igna is about a centenarian midwife in a small town who becomes a candidate for the world's oldest living grandmother. While her longevity is exploited for capitalist gain, she compromises her privacy for the tourists that come to town. The film explores themes of death in a community that fears it, as Lola claims to be ready for death after outliving her family. She is tired from the fleeting nature of life around her and desires permanence in death. Ultimately, the film shows how connections between people can give life meaning, and a newborn baby brings renewed perspectives on embracing life rather than constantly desiring an escape from it through death.

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    She Is Tired of Departures That She Herself Wants To Depart

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    Kris Angel
    The film Lola Igna is about a centenarian midwife in a small town who becomes a candidate for the world's oldest living grandmother. While her longevity is exploited for capitalist gain, she compromises her privacy for the tourists that come to town. The film explores themes of death in a community that fears it, as Lola claims to be ready for death after outliving her family. She is tired from the fleeting nature of life around her and desires permanence in death. Ultimately, the film shows how connections between people can give life meaning, and a newborn baby brings renewed perspectives on embracing life rather than constantly desiring an escape from it through death.

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    Lola Igna is a heartwarming film about the fragility of long life and sometimes the emptiness of its celebration.

    It tells the story of the eponymous centenarian midwife of a bucolic town whose longevity is appropriated for
    capitalist means when she becomes a candidate for the world’s oldest living grandmother. Nevertheless, the
    film does not portray such appropriation as black-and-white; instead, it acknowledges the appropriation as a
    negotiation: we are made aware of the political and capitalist underpinnings of the world record the town is
    applying for, yet the grandmother’s compromise of her quietude for the coming tourists is honored as an
    entrepreneurial contribution.

    Moreover, both the film and its titular protagonist are introspection on the existing discourse on death in a
    thanatophobic community, dying usually portrayed as miserable and dreadful in other films, an unwelcome
    visitor. Lola Igna is so prepared for dying, even claiming that it is her only remaining wish and she has seen
    her deceased loved ones that signal that she will soon be fetched. However, her desire to die can be construed
    as her camouflage for her disenchantment in living. She aspires for permanence, that is death, for she is
    exhausted from the fleeting nature of lives around her—her husband and children died first and one of her
    grandchildren left their lowly home. She is tired of departures that she herself wants to depart.

    In the film’s critical events, we see how connections are potent in ascribing significance and meaning to our
    lives. We see forgiveness between siblings, one who stayed and one who left and returned; the same goes for
    mother and son. We see a granddaughter seeing her grandmother who falls ill not as an object of her capitalist
    gains but as a human being and her grandmother. We see at the end through the arrival of a newborn life a
    renewal of perspectives for both its young and old protagonists: both closing their intense desire for departures
    as escapes from the burden of their lives and embracing finally an appreciation of life as the best preparation
    for death.

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