Araña

This is a great film that was overlooked firstly because of the social eruption in Chile (despite the clearly relation between its story and the facts that lead to the Chilean revolts) - and finally by the pandemic.

I only had the chance to watch it now in 2022. Gladly.

Our latin american cinema usually depicted for the last decades only the left efforts to resist the dictatorships - and their hideous acts - that took over basically every country here due to coups induced by the US in the context of the cold war.

This movie, on the other hand, shows the period from other perspective: the youth that took arms to enforce those coups against popular governments.

Going back and forth in time, from the 70s to the actual times, it depicts a group of three people that were part of a neofascist group - their actions in the past and how they ended up.

With a great and pretty stylish directing, fantastic acting (specially by Mercedes Moran and Maria Valverde) and such an interesting plot, it works so well to show how those wounds from the past are still pretty open in our actual contexts - as lots of people that took part in the conflicts, despite their crimes, are still in the meanders of the elite and power.

In Latin America, we usually prefer to forget what broght us til here, but as this film - and the chilean people have been doing since the period it was released -, shows: that's not the way to evolve and develop really fair societies as we wish. We got to face the past to understand the present and build a better future.