I have to admit, I didn't read the book, and have not watched "la Nana" the other acclaimed Chilean film; so when I began to see this movie I wait to find something unique, the taste of the Chilean talent but after five minutes I found a few things used by others directors: camera on the hand technique and of course the good looking hero (vicuña, his acting it's very good but they could use some new face) like "Saving private Ryan" , basically in the first minutes of the movie to impact the audience with this world. Chile it's a beautiful place, and any good director (I mean like Terrence Malick)can do good scenes, but after a few minutes there is nothing more than the basic story, the good acting, and the sense they could do so much more.
------ warning possibly spoiler------- About politics, I was hoping a human side in every aspect, and for most part of the movie I found it, but there are some scenes terrible, I don't care who was the bad guy in the past, I care for the heart of the people who live it, but here Littin took his side in way almost ridiculous and in that moment I confirm I was watching the same old story about the traumas of the Pinochet time.
Frankly, I' m not a fan of the Chilean cinema, I loved "Tierra del fuego" of Littin, but watch this movie reminds me the very painful experience of "Transformers 2", counting every second to the end, feeling the bad taste of what could be.
There are many kinds of bad movie, for me this is some kind of art trash (or art of trash), I mean a film made to be a piece of art, but in the end the ambition of the director kill the poetry when he do things who seems to be different of the commercial movies, but are the same thing you can find in other better works.
After watch a movie like this cannot stop to praise "la Nana" at least to make something different.
------ warning possibly spoiler------- About politics, I was hoping a human side in every aspect, and for most part of the movie I found it, but there are some scenes terrible, I don't care who was the bad guy in the past, I care for the heart of the people who live it, but here Littin took his side in way almost ridiculous and in that moment I confirm I was watching the same old story about the traumas of the Pinochet time.
Frankly, I' m not a fan of the Chilean cinema, I loved "Tierra del fuego" of Littin, but watch this movie reminds me the very painful experience of "Transformers 2", counting every second to the end, feeling the bad taste of what could be.
There are many kinds of bad movie, for me this is some kind of art trash (or art of trash), I mean a film made to be a piece of art, but in the end the ambition of the director kill the poetry when he do things who seems to be different of the commercial movies, but are the same thing you can find in other better works.
After watch a movie like this cannot stop to praise "la Nana" at least to make something different.