This process has meant, for those of us who have had the painful privilege of knowing it deeply, a sort of descent into dark areas of the human soul, where misery, abjection and horror reach depths which are hard to imagine in advance, and impossible to understand afterwards. Dante Alighieri, in “The Divine Comedy”, saved the seventh circle of hell for the violent ones: for all those who hurt others through the use of force. And in that same hell, he submerged, in a river of boiling and nauseating blood, a specific type of doomed people the poet described as follows: “These are the tyrants who dealt in bloodshed and pillaging. Here they lament their pitiless mischiefs”.
The *fun* thing about Argentina 1985 is that despite the serious subject matter and how it treats it, there are a lot of classic movie moments that make it like watching a tale of the plucky underdog team of misfit youths against the establishment justice system. You see all these quirky characters working as a team for a good cause and it hits the right story and even comedy beats, like a team that learns to work together under the guidance of someone more experienced, it's a classic story. You're almost having fun at one point.
English: Every March 24, the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is commemorated in Argentina, as a way of remembering the victims of the last coup in Argentina, which began on March 24, 1976.
It lasted 2,818 days
20,000 factories closed
340 clandestine detention centers were created
external debt multiplied ×6
more than 200 banned songs and movies
over a 100 banned books, including children's books
increased poverty from 4,4% to 37.4%
30,000 people missing
more than 4,500 people were murdered and tortured in ways so disturbing that I cannot speak here
Español: Cada 24 de marzo se conmemora en Argentina el Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia, como una forma de recordar a las víctimas del último golpe de estado en Argentina, iniciado el 24 de marzo de 1976.
Duró 2.818 días
20.000 fabricas cerraron
Se crearon 340 centros clandestinos de detención
Se prohibieron y censuraron más de 200 canciones y películas
más de 100 libros prohibidos, incluidos los de clasificación infantil
aumento de la pobreza del 4,4% al 37,4%
30.000 personas desaparecidas
más de 4500 personas fueron asesinadas y torturadas de formas tán perturbadoras que no puedo hablar aquí
but also FUCK the golden globes they started to blast music the second Ricardo Darín began to speak in Spanish fuck you gringos and your pathetic monolingual stinky pretentious asses
This is your argentinian reminder that ARGENTINA 1985 comes out on September 30th in US theaters!
This film is about the historic trials to the dictators that inflicted state terrorism and dissapeared thirty thousand people during the CIA-backed coup of 1976-1983.
Not only it looks like a damn good movie, it’s one of the first chances we have to support Argentinian film worldwide in years. Our film industry has been destroyed by a multitude of factors - including Hollywood’s hegemony - and I’d love to see people realise that we’ve got excellent creators locally, that we can tell our stories and succeed. And for that - producers need to know we can sell, too. Please go watch it!
you all thought that the South Asian 🤝 Argentinean solidarity ended with the World Cup? THINK AGAIN!
The RRR team congratulates Argentina 1985 on our Golden Globe win! Bear in mind both movies were shortlisted for the same award, and guess what happened in the latest Critics Choice Awards? 😍
RRR 🤝 Argentina 1985
A movie about rising up against British imperialism🤝A movie about rising up against dictators and their political power
Something can go wrong, someone might get distracted, and then a gap opens up, a thin one, a crack. It closes fast, but when it opens you need to be inside, and then, yes, then that’s when you can do something. That’s how important things get done; and they were made with intelligence, with courage and with shrewdness.
Argentina, 1985 (favourite scenes requested by @dasakuryo)