The Battle of Chile: Part 2

I was literally enraged at the end of this: so many shattered dreams, so many dashed hopes. Pinochet's coup is one of the most infamous events of recent Latin American history, and this excellent film puts you right in the middle of the turmoil. It makes you wish you could do something. At least I wish I could, but Allende is dead, and those times are now long gone.

On the left's side of things, Guzman's cameras seem to be everywhere that's important, and if that's only an illusion it's a very good one. While I do wish I could see the inner machinations of the right's coup, this picture of a civil conflict escalating is as vivid as any film has ever captured.

Like the first movie Guzman shows how skillful he is to document the history. I think, this one is little bit more impressive than the first one which was still great but also this is more sad and at the end of the movie makes you incredibly nervous against the coup and the people behind that.

Death to all capitalists.

Not only is this an incredible historical document, but a highly courageous and disciplined film. What Guzmán manages to convey is the feeling of revolution; the insidious and brutal nature of fascism, as against the resilience and solidarity of the proletariat. Guzmán uses his narration not to determine a narrative, but to set the stage for the workers to voice their fears and hopes for the nation. These images of revolution are at times startling and always compelling.

Deixe-me explicar melhor o porquê desses filmes do Guzmán serem tão bons, não é apenas pela posição ideológica que assume, mas também pela forma que é editado e filmado - só para dar um exemplo de sua magnificência técnica fico como toda aquela sequência no cemitério onde a nata militar do Chile está ao som da Marcha fúnebre de Chopin, aquilo é de uma beleza cinematográfica sem igual. DVDRip no MakingOff

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"A non-violent Leftist movement was un-Democratically taken out of power. The viewer outside of Chile is going to say 'Well that is contrary to the values that the West openly espouses, and as such, our sympathies should not be with the institutions that were responsible for dismantling Democracy here, but rather with the Left, with whom we've been told to distrust.'" http://illusionpodcast.blogspot.com/2016/01/episode-88-patricio-guzmans-battle-1975.html

Nice propaganda.

Very similar to the first part in style and form, but I did like it a little more. It felt a bit more informative and better paced.

Always a powerful technique of film is to show whats happening right in front of our face and still overwhelm it's viewers. I feel these pieces of activist cinema are highly relevant to the events of today. Score for all three parts combined.

"A present-tense record of nation-splitting turmoil, Patricio Guzmán's monumental documentary The Battle of Chile remains a landmark of activist cinema." - Fernando F. Croce

Part 2 of Patricio Guzmán's three part documentary on the Chilean coup.