10/10
Excellent Documentary
10 September 2006
Muy impresionante. In the US this would be a "Dateline NBC" or "60 minutes" kind of film, but Pineyro (who starred and directed in the semi-autobiographical "Whisky, Tango, Zulu" about being a whistle blower in the badly run airline LAPA) creates a chilling scenario of the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation, and puts the blame on the Air Force. He claims it is the only country in the world in which the air force has this control. Two days after the film came out, the government announced major changes and took the points made in the film constructively. Pineyro convincingly tells the story himself, with diagrams, interviews, hidden cameras, and a few props (he spills out a bag of plastic airplanes and equates it to the number of planes the air force has lost). Not a glossy, high budget film (Argentine films generally aren't), but clearly a film that makes a clear statement and is having its impact felt throughout the entire country. Bravo, Enrique.
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