It may seem like I’m specifically choosing movies based on real events, but I’m not, just randomly selecting them, and then it turns out to be that kind of movie again. So this time I watched the film Costa Gavras (Greek-French director Konstantinos Gavras) “Missing” / Missing, 1982, shot on the basis of the events that happened to
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It may seem like I’m specifically choosing movies based on real events, but I’m not, just randomly selecting them, and then it turns out to be that kind of movie again. So this time I watched the film Costa Gavras (Greek-French director Konstantinos Gavras) “Missing” / Missing, 1982, shot on the basis of the events that happened to the American journalist Charles Horman (John Shea) during the Chilean coup, this is an adaptation of Thomas Hauser’s book “The Execution of Charles Horman”. Charles, along with his wife Beth (Sissy Spacek) moved to Chile at one time, because they adhered to rather leftist views, he openly expressed himself, believing that since he was an American, no one would touch him, but then a coup broke out. Charles was curious, and because of this managed to get acquainted with some Americans who also came there, but for quite different reasons, communicating with them, he began to understand that something was wrong with this coup, while he kept detailed records, about the danger of this occupation he was repeatedly warned, including his wife. And then one day he disappeared, his wife that night could not get to the house, when she came, there was a complete defeat, neighbors saw that he was taken away by armed men. His wife tried to find him, and after a while, Charles’ father Ed (Jack Lemmon) came there, supporting his trip with recommendations from various famous people, thanks to which he was welcomed in different instances. At first, he actively communicates with all the American figures there, including the ambassador and consul, and can not understand the boorish, in his opinion, behavior of the daughter-in-law, who clearly does not believe all the conversations, since she herself has already passed this path and convinced of its complete ineffectiveness, but he still believes them. In the course of the action, we see how the father loses all faith in these figures, despite the imitation of their activities, and in the end begins his own investigation, after which the body of his son is still found, he is practically convinced that he could be executed only with the blessing of the Americans themselves as having received access to unprofitable information, because they are still mostly released even from the same stadium, and the body is promised to bring in a few days, depriving them of the cost of transportation, and brought only after seven months. The father reconciles with the daughter-in-law, realizing that she was right, they leave, at the end he throws in the face of officials that he will sue them all, saying: "I just thank God that we live in a country where we can still put people like you in prison!" But alas, his lawsuit filed against 11 officials and the military was rejected, the events were classified, the Americans deny their involvement until now.
It is clear that both the film, despite the fact that it was successful then and earned awards at film festivals (including the Golden Palm in Cannes and Oscar Lemmon), and the book on which it was directed, in 1983 were removed from the American market, and the former ambassador and two other officials sued them for defamation, but they lost. The film was only restored in 2006. I liked the movie.