The Hidden Historical Film Messages of The Mission, The Battle of Chile and Camila
Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects as well as the field in general. It is an important art form since it entertains, educates, enlightens and inspires audiences. Films are also artifacts created by specific cultures which reflect those cultures and in turn affect them. (2006)
Written texts are similar to film version or screen texts in the sense that each provides an approach to understanding how culture intersects with the social, political and ethical dilemmas of everyday life. Further, the screen text can be treated in exactly the same way as the written text when it comes to analysis. (1998)
Consequently, the difference between the two resided in the screen’s added visual dimension. Film uniquely able to communicate some aspects of history more effectively than the written text alone since it provides viewers the real-time transmission of still images of visible reality and sound. Further, this image of visible reality and sound strongly impresses the public memory. (1998)
Films are used by historians to elucidate the dark recessed of the past. One film commonly used by historians of the Latin American past since its release in 1986 is The Mission, directed by with a screenplay by . The film presents Paraguay’s Guarani missions as an idyllic paradise where the Jesuits and Guarani live in an Edenic state of bliss until the worldly state issue of the transfer of the Spanish mission territory to Portugal intrudes. Set during the Jesuit Reductions, the movie tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who goes into the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani Indians. The priest tries to defend the community against the cruelty of Portuguese colonials who are trying to enslave the Guarani. Through addressing the film’s numerous historical inaccuracies, James Schofield Saeger attempted to give a voice to the silent other by restoring humanity to the. (1998)
The Battle of Chile created and directed by is another film revealing the dim buried of the past. The film vividly portrays the political situation in Chile before the September 11, 1973 coup. This explains why the Chilean bourgeoisie and the U.S. government believed that only military intervention could save capitalism in Chile. It shows just what the military needed to destroy by highlighting the workers’ sense of their own empowerment, their profound politicization, and their willingness to struggle. (1998)
In addition, it conveys in details the nature and consequences of political events in Chile during the last year of the Allende government. What was happened was of great interest outside as well as inside of Chile, not just for other Latin Americans, but for the workers’ movement on an international scale. The Battle of Chile is remarkable because you were recording history as it happened. We witness first-hand the events leading to the death of a regime. (1998)
Likewise, one of the best ways to commemorate this tragic date is by recapturing the political struggles, dramas and hopes that defined those who supported the Popular Unity government. This is what the film The Battle of Chile does and it does it better than any other film on this period in Chilean history. (1999)
On the other hand, the film, Camila written and directed by recounts the true story of a young Catholic socialite from Buenos Aires, Camila Ugorynan who falls in love and runs away with a young Jesuit priest, Ladislao Gutierrez. The two find temporary happiness in a small provincial village where they live peacefully as husband and wife. But their peace is ephemeral and eventually they are recognized and ultimately condemned to death without a trial. (1994)
Camila is more than a story of doomed love. It is also a strong statement about personal and political freedom. It extends beyond what we see, deep into the feelings and desires that are common to human beings everywhere. At one level, Camila has a very simple storyline: it is a love story made tragic by social intolerance and repression. As a period piece based on actual events, one might expect the film to offer benefits for viewers who love history but in reality, Camila finds a deeper level of psychological insights than social or historical ones. The film illustrates the consequences for women of the convergence of patriarchal structures of family, church and state in the nineteenth century. It point out the political statement about the inhumanity of repression by both dictatorships and the church. (1994)
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