Although in the document (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s letter to Sor
Filotea) the bishop of Puebla Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz wrote as Sor Filotea and was
friends with Juana. This calls into question on reliability of the movie, also when Juana kisses the
one of the professors after she was tested in Mexico City and later when she kisses the viceroy’s
wife Maria Luisa calls into question the accuracy of the film.
Also if one wants to compare to Saint Rosa of Lima to Juana Ines de la Cruz they are
very different women. In the document “Santa Rosa of Lima according to a pious accountant”
(1617) a description on her life and how she was devoted to God. She cut her hair, poured cold
water on her body, pushed her body to its limits; how she wore a crown of thorns in essence she
punished herself. This was viewed as a virtues woman and an orthodox life for a nun even
though she never became a nun and the people of Peru adored her. Here we have a woman that
would be considered crazy in modern time been adored in the seventeen century. While Juana
had been discourage form writing for doing a men’s job in those times even if she did it