: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.
Costa-Gavras is a total G. Z is one of my favorites of all time.
Yeah I saw Z for the first time last week, that movie was dope as hell. Like really only deranged leftist psychos are going to watch and enjoy State of Siege but Z is such a cool movie with momentum, cool music and great characters that really I think anyone could enjoy it.
But it is also very based. You could tell just how furious he was. When I saw the disclaimer at the start "any similarity to real persons port events is not coincidental. It is intentional" I laughed out loud and strapped on the seatbelt
Oh shoot I didn't even realize this was based on a real event. Apparently this is based directly on the kidnapping of Dan Mitrione
That's crazy this movie came out 2 years later. Costa-Gavras was making movies as news reports shit is wild
Yo I have never heard of this director or movie but shit looks fire.
I'd suggest starting with Z, widely understood to be his best film about the fascist junta in Greece in the 60s. It's on YouTube in pretty good quality, I'd suggest watching the first five minutes rn it'll either get to totally psyched or you'll realize this isn't for you
where'd you watch it? i had a hell of a time trying to find it
It's streaming on the Criterion Channel, too: https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/state-of-siege
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I just torrented it, found it way easier to find a torrent for this than Z (which is completely unsearchable lol). If you understand French the whole movie is on YouTube without subtitles
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?
the secret police training happened exactly the places they did irl
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
now I really need to get around to watching it, I d/l'd a year ago but have a backlog of foreign films to watch.
