This Movie is without the shadow of a doubt the greatest Chilean movie ever, maybe a top 250 contender. The Plot is amazing, but also visually is so beautiful so much emotion that grows even better with the wonderful soundtrack. Maybe the fact that I am from Chile makes for me this movie so great, because its based on a historical moment that is so close in society but in a major reason the fact that the Director dedicate this movie to a priest of my school that died like a year ago. A priest that I really admire and love, he started in Chile this activity of putting poor boys in private catholic schools, in my school (Saint George), and the things in this movie are very alike what happened in real life.
Talking about the acting it's so good, the two boys are not the best there is on young actors but they did well. This Movie not only is about society in 1973s Chile, we have alcoholism, infidelity, politics, 'love', friendship and many others.
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When the friendship between the boys starts we are driven to very funny moments. It started with a stupid school boy's fight but then they start to know each others world, even they are SO different they act like they don't care. The two moments that where the most shocking ones where when the priest is going out from school and all the boys stand up to say good bye, been Machuca the first one to stand up, a very cliché scene but that works great. And later when the military armies start attacking the communist they kill Silvana, friend of Gonzalo and Machuca, then Gonzalo (rich boy) escape and tell the soldier that he is not from there, and shows him his nice cloths and they let him go, very moving moment.
I rate this Movie 9/10, not 10 only because that's the best, and I have only rated 10 two movies in my life. AMAZING...
Talking about the acting it's so good, the two boys are not the best there is on young actors but they did well. This Movie not only is about society in 1973s Chile, we have alcoholism, infidelity, politics, 'love', friendship and many others.
(SPOILERS)
When the friendship between the boys starts we are driven to very funny moments. It started with a stupid school boy's fight but then they start to know each others world, even they are SO different they act like they don't care. The two moments that where the most shocking ones where when the priest is going out from school and all the boys stand up to say good bye, been Machuca the first one to stand up, a very cliché scene but that works great. And later when the military armies start attacking the communist they kill Silvana, friend of Gonzalo and Machuca, then Gonzalo (rich boy) escape and tell the soldier that he is not from there, and shows him his nice cloths and they let him go, very moving moment.
I rate this Movie 9/10, not 10 only because that's the best, and I have only rated 10 two movies in my life. AMAZING...