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Favorite Scenes

posted 15 years ago by Eumenides_0
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I loved this movie so much, so many scenes stood out for me:

- Ed and Beth looking for Charlie in the stadium; Ed using the mike to call his son, amidst all those innocent people looking at him, not understanding what those two foreigners were doing there. And then the cruel punchline: "They won't allow my father to come".

- Charlie watching the helicopter flying right next to his balcony.

- Ed hugging Beth: "We're going home"

- The scene in which the ambassador explains "American interests" to Ed.

- Beth making fun of the ambassador when he receives Ed for the first time and starts feeding him the same crap he fed her countless times.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] kag2-1 15 years ago

I wouldn't pick one particular Ed and Beth scene, but the compendium in which Ed transforms from annoyed father-in-law to man with genuine respect and love for Beth and Charlie.

Three other chillingly effective scenes:

1-Ed seeing all the armed soldiers and tanks upon his airport arrival.

2-The body in the river as seen from the hospital.

3-The embassy scene where after failing with the journalist ploy ("your son is in the north"), they basically admit Charlie is dead via Ray Tower's example of the mafia and the East River.

[–] Eumenides_0 15 years ago

Yes, Ed's character arc is beautiful; it's one of the most convincing transformations I've ever seen in a movie character. I especially liked the scene with Beth when he tells her she's the best person he ever met.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] psdhart 14 years ago

-The very last scenes

[–] BugisStreetAnnie (1294) 5 years ago

1-Ed seeing all the armed soldiers and tanks upon his airport arrival.

That was a great scene. Then when he's walking through the airport and soldiers are 'escorting' a family away as they're fighting with them. I wish they would have explained why they were being taken away by the military, even the young girl who looked to be about 5 was fighting with them, LOL.

[–] CivilWarBill 14 years ago

At the very beginning, when Charlie sees an upper class party going on across the street. The people in the party come out to the balcony and applaud the army patrol as it goes by.

That scene was really chilling, and it is very true to how the upper classes felt about what was going on in Chile at that time.

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