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Yay im first i jus saw this movie in spanish class i slept through most of it but it had a good ending
shareI also saw this movie in school. All my religion teacher seems to do is show videos all day. First Ghandi, which resulted in people mimicking indian accents and shouting Mahatma Ghandi in the corridors (mainly me) second film was Romero, (class quotes: "All he ever does is shout for feck sake!")
We all found that scene where he enters the church against the soldiers three or four times, each time he is thrown out he just goes a step further towards leaving and then returns. Third film was Schindlers List "I didn't think the day would come when a teacher would show a film with so many bare tits in it to a class of rowdy fourteen year olds." It'll be a long time before anyone reads this
I guess it will be.
Hey, does anyone know where i can see this movie?
If you can't rent it, then i guess you're out of luck.
This movie is better if you live in El Salvador, or even if you know about the war. The movie doesn't even show half of what Romero did. And then, you compare it to reality and find out that the goverment, politics and even the press are still the same.
Here in El Salvador, you can only see this movie buying the dvd cuz you can't rent it anymore (cuz it's too old and it's not an all time classic), but national television and theatres has never put this movie. It's like it's banned hehehe.
I lucked out and picked it up at my corner Mom and Pop video store. After calling 6 chain stores in my town and not finding it i called this place which has lots of out of print titles. If you live in a large city you might find it if youre patient enough to call enough stores.
Anyway, I was assigned to see this film for extra credit in my Catholic studies class and I found it to be very powerul and moving. I also noticed that there is a sort of sacramental format of the film. did anyone notice that?
it may be a poor representation of the guy, but it certainly opens the eyes to the horrors of the war at the time and highlights his role in it
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I am the walrus! Whooo!
I managed to pick up a copy on the streets of San Salvador.
I still have to watch it, but it seemed fitting I'd buy it there.
I did notice how black-and-white the opinion of Romero is in El Salvador, though. Usually the richer people hated him with every fiber in their body, and the poor people thought he was a great man...
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I think everyone can guess post was referring to Gandhi no big deal and ¡Viva Celipe Falderón!
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