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Chile

posted 10 years ago by Camelot_2000
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While watching this film, I couldn't get over how strict that country was. Women weren't allowed to wear pants, but only dresses (two women were taken off a bus and had their pants cut into skirts for that) and then there was also a curfew. Sissy Spacek's character didn't make it home in time and she had to hide on the street to avoid getting arrested.

It had been a long while since I saw this film, but those scenes of the dictatorship rule in Chile was something I never forgot. I think Argentina was undergoing a similar crisis at the time too.

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[–] BulmaPunkRocker 9 years ago

I've never seen this film, it was banned in my country (Chile) and it's still difficult to get, I think it's because the lawsuit against Universal Pictures (I read it ended in 2006).
I was born in early 80's, so I born and lived my first 10 years in military dictatorship. I don't know true democracy (who does it, actually?).
What you describe was true. My mother told me about it. But that was NOTHING compared to the cruelest atrocities committed by the military under Pinochet between 1973-1990.
Argentina and most of the Southamericans countries has had right-wing military dictatorships between the 50's and the 80's (some lasted until 2003).
It is a very sad part of our history, and we are a broken land because of that.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

[–] ash-61 9 years ago

Hi Bulma, I'm from Chile too, living in Valparaiso. I found this film today and I'll probably watch it tonight. If you want a copy, let me know.

[–] BulmaPunkRocker 9 years ago

Thank you very much!

Muchas gracias!
I'll be in touch :)

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

[–] elwileycoyote 8 years ago

All of this, the coup, the missing americans, the US navy being 1reported in vina del mar, etc was very well publicized on the US media at the time though Watergate dominated the news. No US official was ever held accountable, though it was widely believed Nixon was culpable and had somehow helped 1965
engineer it with Pinochet and his cronies. I recall in the late 1970s seeing a young Chilean woman being interviewed by Morly Safer.She had been doused with fuel and set on fire. She had escaped Chile and was now recovering in the In the 1960s
Indonesia experienced a similar coup and repression
beginning in 1965, and El Salvador in 1980s.

[–] movies789 7 years ago

Don't get too carried away by the purportedly factual events in the film. The acts characterized were written by a leftist screenwriter, portrayed by notoriously lefty American actors, directed by a leftist director, as dictated by the producers and studio heads. The scenes you saw on the screen weren't filmed on location, in real time; they were created on movie sets, by politically-motivated interested parties. So, take what you see with a grain of salt.