Pablo Larraín’s brilliant, pitch-black take on Chile’s notorious dictator asks the question: What if Augusto Pinochet was a literal monster?
would rise through the ranks of the Chilean military and, having become commander-in-chief of the nation’s army, lead a coup against the country’s president Salvador Allende in 1973. This would kick off Pinochet’s political reign — and reign of terror — for the next 17 years. He’d escape persecution for the countless crimes committed during his regime and was unrepentant about his dictatorship up until his death in 2006., however, would like to set the record straight.
This vampire would like to shuffle off this mortal coil soon, though that’s proving to be harder than he thought. Besides, when you’re a dictator whose brutal rule over a nation still taints generations upon generations of Chileans, do you everis many things: a conceptual horror film, a pitch-black political satire, a reckoning in the most fantastic and capital-G Gothic way imaginable, and the last word on fascists as actual monsters.
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