“…Explanations additionally include that Vero is concussed (White, 2015), confused (Martin, 2013), has "lost her bearings" (Rodríguez, 2014), is plagued by a guilty conscience, or is experiencing a general psychological crisis connected with her privileged economic status in a racist neocolonial order (Losada, 2010;Vásquez, 2015). Even more diagnostically circumspect commentators conclude that Vero is, at very least, "in an altered state of mind" (Gemünden, 2019) or that the film is depicting an erratic "condition of consciousness" (Gemünden, 2019, p. 74). Catherine Malabou might characterize Vero as one of the "new wounded" (Malabou, 2012).…”