The Battle of Chile: Part 3

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Not only is this an incredible historical document, but a highly courageous and disciplined film.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.

Where the first two films document events and a tumultuous political landscape this one instead focuses on the worker collectives and their various attempts at making things work in the face of the opposition from moneyed interests. It's not any worse for it in theory, but it was significantly different and, to me, a bit less interesting with the smaller scope.I might've appreciated it more if I hadn't gone in expecting an extension of the first two films, but it was still quite good.

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.

Part 3 of Patricio Guzmán's three part documentary on the Chilean coup.

Com mais 10 minutos de filme eu mesma sairia gritando pela rua ¡¡CREAR CREAR PODER POPULAR!! e criando sindicatos por todo o país, o filme mais melancólico da trilogia encerra deixando um buraco no peito criado pelas oligarquias burguesas do capitalismo, tente não se emocionar com o último plano. DVDRip no MakingOff

"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

"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

Not as interesting as the fist two. It's because it does not follow the timeline of the previous movies. However, it is an important complementary to them because it explains the people's movement, their works system, their insurgency against bourgeoisie and also their loyalty to Allende.