is first of all a documentary-style American Hollywood-style historical film with strong individualism, and it is not a masculine film, but a feminist film.
The film tells the story of Lena, played by Emma, who met her boyfriend Daniel, who was participating in anti-government actions, during a break from work. They spent two days happily, but the ruling authorities suppressed their demonstrations. Daniel was arrested for filming government atrocities. Arrested, entered the underground secret room of Colonia Dignidad and suffered inhuman torture, and then pretended to be foolish to survive, and continued to collect evidence. In order to get out of Daniel, Lena pretended to be a believer and joined Colonia Dignidad, where she saw that the people living in it were constantly being tortured physically and insulted spiritually. In the end, Emma and Daniel met and the two discovered the base where the government disposed of and arrested protesters in Colonia Dignidad's underground. Bring the evidence back. The entire film is 109 minutes long. The first half is relatively dull, with no ups and downs in the plot conflict. If it is a film that responds to a real historical theme, it will explain less about the social background and environment at that time, and the characters of the two main characters, Daniellena Character and important role were not fully expressed in the early stage. The life experienced by the people living in Colonia Dignidad, some gentleman entanglements between them, and the death of Ursel, who finally escaped, are also just the right theme of the unfilmed sublimation. The first thing to say is that the overall character image is not full. At the beginning of the film, when Daniel and others were in the mass government, they just delivered leaflets, and then when they saw his girlfriend Lena, they immediately walked towards her and kissed her. Without knowing the historical background, they would really think that this was a story about The history of love between flight attendants and activists! But judging from the overall trend of the film, it only makes people remember the main line of Lena's life in Colonia Dignidad in order to save her boyfriend. Then the torture that Lina saw inside, the mental and physical torture of the people inside, and then the two people who hadn't seen each other for a long time met, discovered the secret passage, and finally escaped. So the question arises. After being tortured inhumanly, the arrested Daniel gained a certain degree of freedom by pretending to be stupid, so how did he get the camera to take those pictures? in Colonia How can Dignidad allow the appearance of cameras, and how does it have the conditions to develop photos? won't be found? And as a film with a historical struggle, it should not reflect some of Daniel's hardships in obtaining first-hand information in Colonia Dignidad, so as to better shape Daniel's character and increase the excitement and observability of the film's plot. Including the shaping of Lena's part, she is desperate for love, alert, calm, patient, and also very self-sovereign, from her writing MY MAN on the photo she took for Daniel and in Daniel's hope that Lena lives in the same room with him. The decisive refusal in life, including later, after Daniel was arrested, people in the same camp did not want to drag Daniel down and refused to rescue Daniel, and Lena still resolutely went to Colonia Dignidad alone, which can be seen. However, after that, Lina's performance in Colonia Dignidad and the arrangement of the plot failed to continue to dig deeper on the original basis, and stayed on the surface. It looks veneer and much clumsier. Could it be assimilated by Colonia Dignidad's environment so quickly? Obviously unlikely, and inconsistent with what has previously been shown as a character.
The film does a good job of detailing the people who live in Colonia Dignidad, such as when Lena first came to Colonia Dignidad, her first night as a new member, ursel asked Lena if it was from the outside, her eyes The longing for the inside, the unknown outside, and the tinge of fear that others have outside. It's all shown in the director's lens. Later, after ursel learned that he was pregnant, he wanted to escape from Colonia Dignidad, and did not want to let his child go back to his own destiny. Because he was already a puppet under such a system, and he still had the consciousness to look for hope, so she walked out of Colonia Dignidad with them. But the ending of life has long been written, and it is destined to get only a moment of freedom. Just like being caught by an iron gate in the underground waterway, the clothes could not escape, and finally, joy was washed away by the vigilance and died under the mechanism. Although it is a pity, everyone knows that from the moment she stepped into the water, her life has been complete, and she has no regrets.
There are also many descriptions of Colonia Dignidad in this film, such as the little boy who can be accompanied by crying from the beginning, and the large group of children who do not know who their parents are, but are just numbly accepted by the administrator. order to come. Being constantly asked, I don't even know how to resist! They may never resist, and can only survive as slaves forever. One of the details is also impressive. The leader of Colonia Dignidad was letting the children sing poems, and a few children went to the bathroom, and then followed, and also took off their pants, and what happened next can be imagined. From this, it can be imagined what will happen next after the female nurses are beaten by the men.
The biggest flaw of the movie narrated in such a relatively documentary style is the screenwriter's arrangement of the ups and downs of the plot, which makes the main line of the whole movie not obvious, neither a very good emotional chapter nor a very good record of the subject matter. It's the relative novelty of the final episode that's been compromised.
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