What shouldn't happen

Abstract

Musto transmits her experience when she directed d. Harrower´s Blackbird. It is a text based upon police records that deploys the asimetrical relationship between adults and boys and girls leaving behind childhood and entering adolescence. There is a kind of intimacy, made up of seduction, attraction and love that enclose «this should not happen» in contrast to «what always may happen». Penal law and the newspaper front page use the term «sexual abuse». This paper disables the reassuring categories of perpetrator and victim opening a question mark in regard to what is traumatic in the protagonist’s experience.