Post 3: My favorite movie

Everyday my mind can change its opinion about this topic, but for today, my favorite movie is a Chilean film: Machuca. This piece of art was created in 2004 by Andres Wood, a Chilean film director. It was protagonized by Ariel Mateluna, Matías Quer and Manuela Martelli. 

The movie shows the time-period of 1973 in Chile where the left-wing movement: Unidad Popular, was fighting the posibility to stay in government while the right-wing movement was ready for the military coup to steal the government of Allende, the president of UP. 

Ariel Mateluna is Pedro Machuca, the boy who gave the name to the movie. He's a poor Chilean boy with a single mom, who was sympathetic of the UP, and a drunk father that only cares about the money. He was a neighbor of Manuela Martelli's character: Silvana. Who is also a poor Chilean girl who lives off the sale of flags and cigarettes at the protests of the time. Both of them are sympathetic to the UP and they became friends with Matías Quer's character: Gonzalo Infante, an upper-middle class boy, when the school where he was studying (a private school) implements a social-integration project that allowed five poor boys to study in there. One of them was Pedro Machuca and there's when they became friends, in a particular kind of friendship.

The movie exposes socio-political arguments with a fun, deep and fictionary story but at the same time, the movie shows the real polarization of ideas at the time. I loved it because of the feelings that it made me feel and how the writers and producers interpretates the history. 

My favorite (and maybe least favorite part, too) is the final scene. If you haven't seen the movie, please skip this part!!! When the military groups take control of many places in Santiago, after the coup, Gonzalo Infante, who had fought with his friend Machuca, went to his house to fix things. When he arrived, he found all the violence characteristic of the military dictatorship and sees how they are attacking Machuca's Family and Silvana's Father. He obviously went into shock. There's when a soldier starts yelling at him asking why he's there, that he has to go to the trucks with the other detainees. Gonzalo freaks out and starts yelling back at the soldier: "Look at me! Look at me! Look at my clothes!" And that's when the soldier looks at him and lets him go. It's a very sad, clear and explanatory scene about the differences and violence of the time. 

Can you see now why I'm in love with the movie? It's such a good production. I wouldn't change ANYTHING about this film. Like I said before, it is a piece of art and everyone deserves to watch this. In schools, in universities and all over the world.