Machuca

Aug. 18th, 2004 12:45 am
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Have just come back from the cinema. We went to see Machuca. Chilean cinema usually sucks (IMO), but this movie was beautiful and touching. If it ever gets near you, I highly recomend it. The best way of reviewing it, is saying that silence has arrive to my soul. I'm so moved that I have difficulties in expressing my self. When the movie ends, no one at the cinema moves, a death silence take place in the room. We can't even get comfort saying, "Well, it is a movie", no, it is based in our recent history and people who still is alive, and young (40), has that experience and memories of it. My husband was distress, he remember things being like that.
The sad thing is that thing hasn't change at all in all these years, discrimination is still an issue.

Better now to think back on some of the films that deservedly caught attention. Getting a special mention for political content alongside The Motorcycle Diaries and Fahrenheit 9/11, Machuca was one film that earned its revolutionary stripes. This Chilean buddy film about kids from opposite sides of the tracks, set in the year Pinochet came to power, filtered its politics through the fragmented understanding of 11-year-olds, and felt alive with a sense of time and place.
“Machuca”, by the Chilean Andrés Wood, as the closing film of Directors´ Fortnight. Touching piece about Chile in the 60s, before the pre coup d’état, and the friendship between 2 boys of radically opposed classes. They meet each other in a class of riches’ school, when the school director-priest decides to do an experience of social inclusion, inviting a few poor children. The experience gets worse and worse, as a utopia, alongside the coup d’état progress and the reactions of the privileged classes against the socialist government of Salvador Allende. The film was pretty successful at the festival closing, making the audiences delirious and delivering great moments of commotion.

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