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Movie Review: The sadness of my own memories
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me be honest with you: this movie is a hard movie for a chilean to watch. I was 12 at that time, when my own father was arrested the day after the Coup. Although americans may think that the movie is propagandistic, with my hand on my heart, I tell you: this movie is a timid and sensitive portrait of the fear half of the chileans felt those days. The other half, were happy and enjoying the change. And that division in our country, is also very hard to understand and to swallow, after so many years. The tensions betweeen Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek are very similar to the ones seen in the novel of Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits), between the patriarch who supports the coup and his own daughter who is married to an insurgent. To see this movie, you should have an open heart. And handle to see a story told by the losers of that time.Movie Review: BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Summary: 5 Stars
Missing
The true, unsolved story of the disappearance of US journalist Charles Horman in Chile, gives Jack Lemmon the best role in his career. Lemmon plays Ed Horman whose son Charlie, was a somewhat radical writer living in Chile with his wife, Joyse, at the time of the 1973 coup when President Allende was butchered and his struggling government overthrown.
Young Horman was suspicious about the number of top-ranking American Military Officials staying in Chile at the time and could only assume the worst. Not long afterward Horman vanished, apparently another man who knew too much. This was COSTA GRAVAS FIRST AMERICAN MOVIE.
Movie Review: Not in Our Name
Summary: 5 Stars
This is political filmmaking at its best. Jack Lemmon is wonderful (he was far too underrated in his dramatic roles) as a wealthy American business who joins his estranged daughter-in-law (Sissy Spacek) in South America (Chile) in search of his writer/filmmaker son who has disappeared in the aftermath of a right-wing political coup.
Regardless of your political convictions, the film does a fantastic job of examining the horror Americans often feel when personally, directly confronted by the immorality of our policies overseas. A powerful and beautifully effective moral indictment on those who have forgetten America's promise in their pursuit of global hegemony.
Movie Review: a film of extreme importance
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a film based upon true events that should be seen by all.it speaks on so many levels and shows that things are not what they seem.it makes me question why this world apparantly needs to be so violent? why can't we see the world without having to worry for our own lives? is all this hatred due to greed? watching this film makes me loathe the political system even more.it is a film that needs to be seen to open peoples eyes and minds in seeing how things still are and how we are expendable without riches and power.an important work of film that i am grateful for having seen and belongs on the top 100 most important films of our time.Movie Review: True Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I met a magazine publisher who was on the last flight our of Chile when this coup took place. She confirmed to me that what the movie portrays was very much the anxiousness, the brutality, the fear and panic that filled the streets of Chile's capital when this event happened. The film is well done, and not a pretty picture of how the U.S. has, upon occasion, dipped its' hands into other people's politics, with deadly results. Jack Lemmon, in particular, very credibly plays the conservative father who must slowly accept that the home government in which he places his faith may not be so deserving.