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Silvana is NOT Machuca's cousin

posted 18 years ago by peebles838
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It is common in Chile for kids to refer to neighbors and family friends
as Aunts and Uncles. Pedro Machuca greets Silvana's father as "Uncle",
but later explains to Gonzalo Infante that they are neighbors.

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[–] sanhuezaehijos-ltda 18 years ago

that´s true...

...pointless, but true...

[–] bradley-wissmueller 18 years ago

I CARE....thanks for clearing that up, we were trying to figure that out!

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[–] dan-vollans 18 years ago

Thanks for that information. I was taking a world cultures class and we watched this to learn more about this coup in Chile, and it surprised a lot of people in my class when he refered to Silvana's father as his uncle, and a lot of us did not understand this correlation between neighbors and this reference. Again, thanks a lot!

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[–] WTChique 17 years ago

I knew, but still thanks for explaining. Imagine...she would have made out with her cousin hehe

[–] littledrummergirly 17 years ago

No kidding... I was watching it with my Spanish class and half of them thought they were brother and sister! Eeww!

[–] clambunny 16 years ago

yeah i thoughtt hey were brother and sister oops

[–] Bitter_Almonds 16 years ago

Hah. I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the movie, so I thought they were brother and sister as well... which made that scene seem really really weird

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