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Movie Reviews of Missing
Movie Review: Missing - telling Americans about themselves?
Summary: 4 Stars
The US is a country that has a proud record of democracy and personal freedom. Americans cherish that at home. They also work hard and are very successful economically.
This all tends to make them look inward and rejoice in their own sucessful society. In the process they rarely take time and trouble to check what the organs (many times secret - like the CIA) of their state does outside their borders (in their name). Sometimes what those organs do in other countries are in contradiction to the freedoms and human rights that Americans so cherish at home - and evangelise as universal truths.
Sometimes these two realities overlay in a situation.
Like in the situation wherein this movie takes place
Missing plays out against the background of the "other" 9/11 - when the US helped to organise a bloody coup against the democratically elected government of Chili on 9 Sept 1973 and helped to replace the socialist govt of Salvador Allende with the dictatorial military regime of genl Augusto Pinochet.
This movie is about a patriotic, hard working US man looking for his son who went missing in the violence surrounding that coup in Chili.
He is in the process confronted with a state organ transgressing in another country all that is for him holy in democratic freedom at home. It is argued at one point by US State dept officials in the movie that it must be done to enable him to enjoy those freedoms "at home".
But the price for him was his son's life. Is it worth it? What is the worth of freedom at home when it is bought with fascism and death in another country? Can it not be achieved without this?
Missing stops short of asking these questions because the story runs with the actions of the father (Jack Lemmon) and he does not (did not? - the story is based on fact) ask those questions. He does not try to resolve those contradictions that to this day bedevils the moral base of US foreign policy.
In that it is a good movie, however. It stays true to it's journalistic style that merely lays bare the facts and the situation and does not overtly moralise about it.
And in the end, it is the the Americans watching it that must answer those questions.
Movie Review: Good movie..but didn't stand passing time!
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a great admirer of Costa Gavras movies and although this one remains well constructed and an eye opener for the US government involvement in regime change in Chile (pretty obvious it is a movie about the coup installing Pinochet in Chile...), it certainly doesn't have the power of other much better movies from the Director such as "Z", "Section Speciale", or "L'Aveu" which are more realistic and on the darker side.
Actors are great, but it simply don't stand the time. We are living in troubled times again where "Missing" stories could be anywhere in the world today. For the keen observer, it has lost its power, but not its message...
Movie Review: It will braze a spear through your chest
Summary: 4 Stars
I almost stopped watching this movie about 1/3rd of it's way into the plot. I am so glad I didn't.
It's not just a political drama. It's about the defeat of transparency at the hands of virtues of a state. It shows how vulnerable and dispensable we are even in the world's richest (republican) democracy.
Everyone in the movie has a role that is more or less justified. But the character that brazes a spear through your chest is that of Jack Lemmon's. It's a movie I won't soon forget.
I rate this movie 4.7/5.0.
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Movie Review: An Often Harrowing Film
Summary: 4 Stars
Costa-Garvas recreates the first days of Allende's 1973 coup d'etat in Chile, which was backed by the Nixon Administration. His focus is on the death/political execution of American Charlie Gorman and the attempts by his wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) to discover what happened to him. Both Spacek and Lemmon are superb in this, btw. The director builds tension and mystery throughout. One major gripe -- the characters in the film and the filmmakers themselves are so concerned with the death of one American they seem to virtually ignore the literally hundres of Chileans that are also lying dead around them.Movie Review: good film, bad product
Summary: 4 Stars
I bougth this film by amazon last year. Is about an american citizen and about Chile (the military strike in 1973). For us, I'm chilean, it would be very good a film with spanish subtitles but -I understend- that is not easy. But in this case, if you read the amazon specifications of the product, it is announced that English Subtitles are available, but that is not true. The DVD have not subtitles and no scenes.
But the film is very good, the story and the picture are very good.