Allende Historical Film Review This movie, Allende en su laberinto was a good movie. The director, Miguel Littin wanted to portray the last 7 hours of former President of Chile, Salvador Allende, inside Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. This movie was intended for all audiences, around the world to show a specific event that went down in history. The message the director portrays in this movie is hard to find, you kind of have to know the history of the event before watching it or you may be very confused. However, other than to make money, the director made this movie to show people all around the world how much killing and bombing went on that day. During this, it is in fact biased and only shows one side of the story, where the U.S. is the antagonist and wants to overthrow Allende and his government, while at the same time showing how much the Chilean people suffered, due to the decisions their President had made. However, because it is biased, it gives off the wrong impression because people will have very mixed opinions. We don't know the exact reasoning as to why the U.S. wanted to overthrow him, and it just makes Chile look like the only one that's the victim. On the other hand though, I personally have not seen any other movies made on this topic, and I don't think there's any other interpretation for it. However, the director accepts interpretations and portrays them very well, for example, showing the actual footage of the burning La Moneda Palace, and showing how destroyed it was during the movie also with a lot of smoke and fire. The quality of the film was good for the most part, however some things stood out that didn't look real at all. For example, the burning fire in the background not going anywhere, and the bombings definitely looked fake. You could hardly tell what was going on especially when they kept switching from scene to scene, and to top it off, they got really confusing at points and the actors did and said completely random things that made no sense at all, like the boys dad that they called "three fingers," you ask yourself, why does that even have to do with anything? On a better note, the only really good actor that made the film, was Daniel Muñoz, the man who played Salvadore Allende. He showed a lot of emotion and you can tell her cared about his role and took it very seriously.
