How to pronounce “puig” in English

And Puig really believed in this ability of films to help us transcend reality.

But Puig was far from the only Latin American author to take meaning and inspiration from movies.

His name was Manuel Puig.

But for Puig, movies and novels were about even more than escapism — they were also about change.

Like Molina, Puig was a gay man who turned to movies for inspiration and relief from his homophobic upbringing and culture.

And like a movie cuts between scenes, Puig weaves these stories with scenes of the men’s daily lives in prison, and their growing closeness.