Movies Watched -- Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

In Spanish. Documentary. 90 minute running time, so the right length … this was a John Farr reco … I did not know about the Chilean concentration camps under Pinochet or about the systematic torture and killing of tens of thousands of people … grim stuff … the filmmaker is interested in connecting astronomy and archaeology (you know, exploring the distant past) to the lack of exploration of Chile’s horrific recent past. It reminded me of China in the sense that the persecutors, tormentors, and torturers of the Cultural Revolution still live side by side with their victims, even today, and that’s also true in Chile.

Parents turned over then “disappeared”