Kino believes that if his son acquires knowledge, they will also gain knowledge, which will set them free. He also wants his son to be able to read. Now that Kino is "rich" he wants to buy a gun and new shoes. To Juana, the pearl represents death but for Kino, it represents freedom. But Kino refuses to listen, hoping that the pearl will change their lives once he sells it. Juana, Kino's wife, is convinced that the pearl only brings bad luck and tries to convince Kino to return it to the sea. He immediately grabs it and returns to his wife. One day, Kino stumbles upon a majestic pearl. Later, the doctor and his brother, a loan shark, meet Kino after he finds a valuable pearl and they decide to steal it from him. The doctor does not want anything to do with the natives. The nearest doctor, a foreigner, refuses to treat him without adequate payment and he is taken instead to a curandero. In a fishing village in La Paz, Mexico, pearl fisherman Kino and his wife Juana are in anguish because their infant son Juanito was stung by a scorpion. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is based on the 1947 novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also co-wrote the screenplay. La perla ( The Pearl) is a 1947 Mexican-American film directed by Emilio Fernández.
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