"Strawberry Face" Gonzalo was born in a middle-class family in Chile. His father was away all year round, his mother had a rich lover, and his sister was also a rebellious young woman. He attended an expensive private school, where the children were full of arrogance, which made the silent and shy Gonzalo seem out of place. The open-minded priest and principal boldly recruited several free students from poor shantytowns. In Chile, a country where 92% of Spanish and Indian indigenous blood are mixed, those 2% of pure European blood are like aristocrats, so this group has Superior kids look down on these poor kids. The peaceful school is no longer peaceful, and the contradiction between the rich and the poor is gradually escalating. In the constant conflict, the poor child Machuca has established a pure friendship with Gonzalo, who is on the opposite side.
Gonzalo helped the Machuca family to sell small national flags. First, they sold small blue flags in the bourgeois parade, and then took out a few small red flags to sell in the proletarian parade... Gonzalo's cousin said this. Strawberry face was not angry, but the three of them became good friends.
But Machuca's father's words hit the point, "Are you friends? In five years he will go to college, and you can only work as a toilet cleaner. Ten years later, he will work in Dad's company, and you are still A toilet cleaner. Fifteen years later he's on his way up and he's sitting on company assets, and what are you? You're still a toilet cleaner, and he won't even remember who you are." That's the difference, two The distance that the child has had since birth, this cruel prophecy finally became a reality.
Political parties come to power in turn, causing social unrest, and people cannot live in peace. On September 11, 1973, a coup broke out, and communism suffered a great setback in Chile. The poor are the first to suffer, equal human rights and communism have become a dead letter here, and the dictatorship has madly crushed everyone's life. The fragile friendship between Gonzalo and Machuca has finally come to an end...
Gonzalo witnessed his cousin Machuca being shot and killed by the soldiers, and saw the poor being trampled and ravaged by others. Bicycle embarrassed to escape the slum. Since then, the two children have finally returned to their own circle of life.
A few days later, the newspapers wrote that "FIFA claims that life is normal for the Chilean people". Gonzalo seems to have returned to his original life, but can he really "go back"? After a brutal and bloody history, his innocent childhood ended like this.
that year. sunny. They have experienced smiles, joy, they have seen death, and life has been ravaged, and in the end, they say goodbye to childhood.
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