:stephan: This movie has everything: unequal exchange, neocolonialism, Jakarta method, parapolitical death squads, School of the Americas, USAID/CIA connections, urban guerrillas. It's like every book I've read in the last year and comrade Costa-Gavras put it all in a movie 50 years ago. It's about the Tupamaros fighting against US fascist intervention in Uruguay.
Cool shit, high recommend. I'm working my way through Costa-Gavras' filmography this dude was fucking tight.
i watched this today :meow-floppy: very very good.
in comparison to Z the literal only thing they changed was the name of the american :miyazaki-laugh: its Uruguay, the city is Montevideo, the org is USAID and the secret police training happened exactly the places they did irl
theres a certain melancholy to the proceedings though, even realised in the final act of the film--the Tupamaros lost. dramatically so. by 1972 (and production was obv a bit beforehand) the writing probably wasn't on the wall but Gavras definitely diagnoses the terminal path they were on.
wheres the happy Gavras film goddammit?
Wait is this for real?
i hate that i dont have a monograph to link you to but its fairly well known that that schools in the film are factual institutions and projects undertaken by.the US in the inteterests of anticommunism in latam
No I mean the room in which the torture class was filmed was the same lecture hall the real ones occurred?
oh no not to the room but to the cities and general geographic position. i mean they could hardly film there when the operation was still going lol