Machuca Streaming
Posted by dalepeters1962 on January 4th, 2010
Andrés Wood is a highly regarded Chilean filmmaker, a man unafraid to select on controversial issues and reveal them in a manner that is revelatory to his audience, whether that audience is in Chile or other South American countries – or in Europe or North America. In MACHUCA he transports us to the year 1973 in Chile when Pinochet’s military coup overthrew Allende’s socialist ‘democracy’. Shining that there remains a divided thought of this period of time, a time when Allende supporters who could not dash the country were murdered or placed in detention camps as political prisoners, Woods sensitively recreates this period through the eyes of children from the populace divided by the middle class and the unpleasant, a technique which works on every level.
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Saint Patrick’s School for boys in Santiago is headed by a kind priest/principal Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) and the rich to middle class uniformed boys include one ’strawberry faced’, peaceful, chunky Gonzalo Infante (Matías Quer) whose family is of means but has issues of covert infidelity with the mother (Aline Küppenheim) and father (Francisco Reyes) . The Allende government is shaky, and in an attempt to appease the bad class, Saint Patrick’s School takes on students from the shantytowns to ‘democratize’ education. Among these novel students is Pedro Machuca (Ariel Mateluna) who seems to be a loner but soon becomes the brunt of the rich kids’ prejudice. Gonzalo befriends Pedro and gradually the two do a strong bond which leads to each of the boys learning about their separate families and life styles: Gonzalo’s life of luxury dazzles Pedro while Pedro’s humble shack houses warm family that Gonzalo envies. The friendship leads to a terminate examination of the schism of racism and political clashes brought into attractive focus as the military coup changes everything. Only friendship remains intact in a dramatically tested fashion.
Andrés Woods marries the political and the human aspects of this chaotic time in Chile and offers us insights into the ongoing changing governments of South America. His script (which he wrote with Eliseo Altunaga, Roberto Brodsky and Mamoun Hassan) is spare leaving region for remarkable of the legend to be told by observing the interaction of his two main characters with their associates. The result is a deeply racy film, an opportunity to ogle the tenuous times of a period most of us barely understand. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, May 07
This is a yarn of 2 young Chilean boys who attend one another during the turmoil of the Allende era. One boy is from a well to do family & enjoys a life of privilege. The other boy is from a unpleasant family & is mistreated by society & the government.
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This movie is well worth the money but be aware that unless you can bag beget of a disk equipped with English subtitles, you will need some knowledge of Spanish to accept the most from this film.
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