Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Disappeared

documentary Argentina

Sad piece on one of the side effects of Argentina's dirty war of the 70's. After killing student leftists the military would steal their babies and give them to favored couples. In this film we follow the journey of a man in his late 20's as he discovers the truth of his parentage.

Film was sharpened by interviews of unreconstructed and unrepentant military guys who dismiss everything we just saw with scorn...didn't happen, wasn't true, etc.

This drive to dominance and repression seems to be universal, simply part of the human condition. It's now developing here and I see no hope that we will ever remove this behavior from the social mix.

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