Senorita Extraviada challenges the idea that the victimized young women are disposable by showing each of the women rather than by grouping them together as a group of victims. For example, at one point in the documentary, there was a group of thirteen women who had been murdered in the same way but the police "paid no attention" and "they hided it so that things would not be more difficult" (Portillo 19:00). The police treated the women as if they didn't matter, but this documentary shows otherwise by bringing to light the injustices done to the victims. Also, each woman who was murdered is shown in the film to show that everyone of them is not important and they are not disposible. The families of the women practiced resilience by refusing to give up and doing everything that they could to make sure that the authorities found the right people. They refused to forget their daughters, refused to allow the "social death" of being disregarded and forgotten to reach them.
Art played a large role in this resilience as well. Families began to paint black crosses on ping backgrounds in protest as "silent witnesses to symbolic and and experiential instances of violence" (Fregoso 21).
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