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this is one of the most depressing story ive seen

posted 17 years ago by nopisin
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im from a country which was also ravaged by martial law in the 70s and 80s , and i just cant accept the fact that grown men will rape, torture and kill defensless women and children...
some may find the movie kinda loose but the point is things like these really happened and are still happening...
innocent people or radical students being abducted, tortured and murdered and are never found again, giving their families an empty, indescribable pain...
how could people do this? only people with power have the capability to do this

[–] snows-8 16 years ago

I agree! The visuals are wonderful, the acting is great (Emma Thompson is one of my VERY favorite actresses) and I'm good with the magical realism elements of the story, but it is so painful to watch the torture and rape of Cecilia and her daughter that I'm not sure I can finish it. How DO people turn into unfeeling monsters like these??

[–] agostinagamedo 16 years ago

They were never people, just horrible monsters that love to see real people cry and beg for their lifes. i am argentinian and this movie shows one of 30000 histories that happened in the military decade. In the book "Nunca Mas, informe de la comision nacional sobre la desaparicion de personas" you will find the terror of the word "missing"

[–] Trinian89 16 years ago

I couldn't sleep after seeing this movie, I felt horrible. and I'm someone whom loves to watch movies about world wars en the holocaust, or other things dealing with loss of humanity.
this movie was shockingly depressive, and that while it's only a reanaction of real events.
I think the main thing that got to me where the rapings. I've always had a utter hatred for rapist and molesters and such but, this was just... lets just say if I was banderas's character I would have done so much worse than letting the guy go, about whom he knew what he had done.

Joker:They don't make straitjackets like they used to. I should know.

[–] Vellex 13 years ago

I completely understand you. It wasn't just straight rape, it was the fear in the women's eyes before it happened, the taunts the men gave them. It was torture. When they wanted Cecilia to CHOOSE which man would rape her daughter, and then hearing her screams....it was more than just straight rape. I honestly had to chnage the channel a few times, it was too much to bear personally.

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[–] markstuart-1 16 years ago

pity you didnt get to see more of emma getting tortured.it flashed by too quickly.i wonder if theres an uncut version with more nudity?and showing more of the daughter as well.

[–] antiglobe 13 years ago

Emma Thompson won't show herself nude you can be sure about this.

[–] urik 16 years ago

Yeah. It was awful. That's what happens when you give power to the worse scums of society, and put them together.

But damn. If in Argentina it was harsh, imagine how it must have been during the Stalin years in the Soviet Union.
Scary...

[–] antiglobe 13 years ago

Yeah but must be noted that while despite all the terrors and cruelty Stalin made Soviet-Russia a mighty industrial superpower out of a poor agricultural nation the junta gave nothing really notable to Argentina. A big difference to note.

[–] sfrsez 10 years ago

wow. your statement is ridiculous for many reasons. firstly, technology always progresses, without the need of a psycho.

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