Dawson Island 10 "Director: Miguel Littin
Screenplay: Miguel Littin
Cast: Benjamin Vicuña, Bertrand Duarte, Pablo Krogh, Cristian de la Fuente, Sergio Hernandez, Luis Dubbo
Chile / Brazil / Venezuela, 2009
When
touches a sensitive and important issue like this, the demand is higher calling. No need for attractive actors for the movie to work, since the value added is not there. The proposal should be an informative, artistic work for a not knowledgeable on the subject, is a simple way to culturizarse on the history of a nation. Chile experienced a period of military dictatorship that led to atrocities in human rights like the one lived in a remote island in the world order. I lived in Dawson is narrated by one of their prisoners - the current Public Works Minister Sergio Bitar - and taken to the big screen by director Miguel Littin. But how? Falling into a relatively flat, with no internalization of characters, with actions that do not contribute at all to the argument nonsensical jokes intended to put some comedy in a dramatic story and a scenic disorder does not allow the engine to decipher what the tape.
While the book is based may be interesting to detail the political life in captivity, the added value of audiovisual is wasted by the director, covered only by the beauty of the landscape that somehow protects the quality of the film. Without the beautiful landscape of Chilean Patagonia, the film could be forgotten in a matter of minutes by not contributing anything and just be a moment of "entertainment" for the viewer. If the plot was banal as it is 50% of Hollywood movies lovers of money, no problem and the viewer would be aware that just going to have a good time. However, the real story escapes being light when rendering the hard times that many Chileans lived at the time.
The inclusion of media players such as Cristian de la Fuente only demonstrate that the focus of the director is different, ruling out the depth as it should be touched on a topic that transcendence. De la Fuente is an actor who does not inspire any remaining credibility in the entertainment world only by their physical appearance. Otherwise it is the Benjamin Vicuña has hinted that vestiges of past works good actor, but however it is not used by the director to develop a rather confusing story line that there is no leading man. Implementation problems are noticed and at times becomes tedious. One example is the use / abuse of dubbing rather than clarifying the character dialogues, serves as another element of unreality which brings the final product adversely.
With so many negative things, well there are some that are valued and appreciated. Such is the case of audiovisual record of the period in which Salvador Allende is shown at the time of the bombing of La Moneda, or the always remarkable Luis Dubbo, which achieved a minor role in stealing the spotlight being the best role taken despite their dialogues unwelcome tax by the script. However, this fails to reverse the mistake of missing a story well worth developing it with more feelings, transforming it into a movie thinking of moving to stop both supporters and opponents of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Rating: 3 / 7
Trailer de "Dawson, Isla 10": the trailer is better than the movie
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