14 Days With Victor
Director's notes
14 Days With Victor is a violent movie. It speaks of sacrifice, of the martyr, of the sublimation of the spirit through torture. Violence, therefore, is present in almost every corner of the film in its most physical, most visual sense.
This does not mean that it has to be a dark film in its form. On the contrary. The objective is to reflect the poetic side of suffering, of the violence that is imposed. Thus, our visual approach tries to distance itself from all of the violent iconography that we associate with genres such as gore, B movies, gothic terrors. We try, rather, to approach the 'religious' perspective on the topic: violence must be tied to beauty, to light, to a supposed ascent of the spirit.
The examples from each school are numerous. We believe that 14 Days With Victor should be more visually similar to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel, than to Hostel, by Eli Roth; closer to Arnofsky's La Fuente de la Vida (The Fountain) than to James Wan's Saw.
