Pachamama

With an amazing and totally original art design, vibrant colors and exquisite music, Pachamama is a jewel of animation. The story is inspiring and carries a message love, respect and gratitude to Mother Earth. I had the chance to see it at the NYICFF, everybody loved it there!

There has been some attempts of telling the story of the american conquest by the spaniards in the past, but they didn't focus so much in how the natives saw it, as most of the movies show the values of the descendants of the conquerors more than that of the conquered people, even though they have good intentions. This is a story told by the people who didn't have a voice, just how the descendants see it, without cliches, and with an astounding quality in visuals and music. Pierre Hammon's score is not just respectful and beautiful, but he created something original and interesting out of research and creativity.

The pictures are haunting and a piece of art. It was originally intended to be a stop motion technique, but they decided to do it in some sort of 2d that has nevertheless a stop motion sensation.

The story is indeed dark, as it was the real story, toned down for children and transformed into an abstract fantasy but without avoiding the message. It mocks the european conqueror that came to kill and steal resources from the natives, but also the Inca empire that did virtually the same to its people, so it's not entirely a one-sided vision. It might have some exaggerated moments, but we allow it as some kind of poetic justice, and besides it's a kid's movie.

Some elements of the pre-columbian culture shown could be a bit shocking for what we are allowed to see after children's movies pass the filter of globalization, but we must understand that this is how things were, we can criticize it, praise it or (ideally) a mixture of both, but not hide it.

The values of this movie are somehow near Miyasaki films, focused on the wonders and richness of our mother nature, which is a good message for future generations.

We've may have lost contact with the source were we all came from. This film could help us remember how much we owe to this planet. Originary people were usually more evolved and peaceful than there conquerors, not the other way around as we may wrongly believe.Thanks! Christian Winckler

I had completely loved this movie, as other people had said this could be a sad movie in some ways, but this is what really happened when spaniards invaded South America, perhaps reality is sad but it's what truly happened, so this movie went to tackle an almost taboo part of southamerican history that is not visited often and much less from the side of the invaded and conquered, to those who are used to edulcorated disney versions, the director , producers and the rest of the movie ensemble, couldn't and wouldn't create a false reality of what happened just because it is not easy to swallow.

Being sad and all, the topic has been treated with decency and respect for the culture, perhaps thats difficult to understand because it is often believed that those who were conquered were less "civilized", but in fact they were more in tune with this world, I assume that it's time to revisit these concepts and accept what happened and observe what we are doing to this planet.

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