Rhetorician

This is the best movie that I have seen this year. I watched in on a transatlantic flight, not knowing what it was. I found myself sobbing in the dark at the beauty and tragedy of the narrative of the documentary and tragic images of Salgado's photographs. "Everyone in the world should see these images," he says at one point, "so that they know how cruel we can be." This film changed my perspective and made me think about international events of my lifetime in a way that I never had before. I have yet to talk to anyone else who has seen this. I hope that will change.

This film is well worth a viewing. The message is poignant, even if you aren't familiar with Chile's history (and you should be). Beautiful imagery spun together into a compelling philosophical exploration about the lose of those who history along with its colonizers and dictators have erased from history, though signs of them remain. An interesting smattering of artists, survivors of Pinochet's dictatorship, and indigenous descendants are featured in the film along with Guzman's introspective narrative about the geography and history of Chile. The main thing that I would improve about the film is its description which doesn't really tell you much about what is in the film and might not grab attention enough to make people want to see it.