This idea of "looking into" a painful history permeates Juan Mandelbaum's documentary, Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos.
"Terror consists not only of killing those who have to die," says writer and historian José Pablo Feinmann, "but also of killing innocent people, so that everyone is fearful." In Argentina during the 1970s, everyone was fearful. The effect was calculated but also chaotic, following Juan Perón's death in 1974 and the collapse of the fragile collation of left- and right-wing Perónists. Flying back to Buenos Aires some 30 years later, Juan Mandelbaum asserts, "I've come home to look into a terrible time in our country's past." This idea of "looking into" a painful history permeates Mandelbaum's documentary, Our Disappeared/Nuestros…...
"Terror consists not only of killing those who have to die," says writer and historian José Pablo Feinmann, "but also of killing innocent people, so that everyone is fearful." In Argentina during the 1970s, everyone was fearful. The effect was calculated but also chaotic, following Juan Perón's death in 1974 and the collapse of the fragile collation of left- and right-wing Perónists. Flying back to Buenos Aires some 30 years later, Juan Mandelbaum asserts, "I've come home to look into a terrible time in our country's past." This idea of "looking into" a painful history permeates Mandelbaum's documentary, Our Disappeared/Nuestros…...
- 9/21/2009
- by By Cynthia Fuchs
- PopMatters
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