Me, being a fairly uninformed freshman, I knew little of geopolitics and absolutely zilch about a 1973 Chilean coup, which was backed by the U.S. . Naturally.
A U.S. journalist goes - ta da - missing in Chile and his wife and father blockaded at every step to find him. Spoiler alert: Augusto Pinochet's junta killed him.
But the information to his whereabouts and his status were not just blocked by Chile, but by the U.S. as well.
There is no good ending to this movie. There are no feel-good moments. It's bleak and it is meant to be.
While the movie isn't a perfect comparison to Kilmar Abrego Garcia - a Maryland resident, who is now trapped after being wrongly deported due to an administrative error, even though the Trump administration admitted he wasn’t a criminal and the Supreme Court ordered his return (after first saying he didn't have to be returned) - it's as close as I can come today.
All those movies, based on real life scenarios and ones created of pure fiction, of people disappearing with no communication, no representation, no support and no trace? we are now living it.
Poo Poo me all you fucking want. The rules are gone. There is not a single person in the DOJ who is going to help anyone who BLOTUS does ill too - rightfully or not.
The El Salvador president publicly - in the Oval Office, even - has said he won't be returning Garcia. I'm sure it has nothing to do with any private conversation he has with our Fucktard "President" before BLOTUS asked the El Salvadoran president to build five additional maxi prisons to - and I quote -“The homegrowns are next”—meaning he wants to send not just immigrants, but American citizens, to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prisons.
I am a cynic. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist too, but none of this is out of the true realm of probability (not possibility) anymore. BLOTUS said he'd get rid of his enemies. He idolizes Putin. He's doing exactly what he said he'd do. ...and he's laying the foundation for more, in front of cameras and no one is remotely trying to stop him.
Call it pre-Holocaust 2025 if you'd like, but it's happening.
Like the movie, this has no happy moments or a good ending.
Song by: Everything But the Girl
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I recall seeing the film when it first came out, and never again since. But other than thinking it was so very darned GOOD I remember hardly anything about its content.
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