Allende en su laberinto

Allende, directed by Miguel Littin, is a historically accurate film that covers the events of the Chilean revolution in 1973. It follows Allende, the president of Chile, and his defense of the capital against the Chilean military and the U.S. government. This film is produced for those that are looking at it through a historical lens, and is made from the perspective of someone who knows history well.

Littin directed this film to display bias in favor of Allende and the Chilean government. Littin wanted to shed light on the different perspectives of the Chilean revolution. This of course is not specifically stated. The viewer is left on their own to determine whose perspective the film is looking at. The director shows the film through Allende's perspective by focusing the camera on him and on what he says.

Allende is perfect for educational purposes. It is historically accurate while providing high-quality acting and camera-work. The only criticism one might have is that the whole film is in subtitles, which while it might not pose a problem to some, to others it could be a turn-off. In summary, Allende is the perfect film for the classroom.

Allende Historical Film Review This movie, Allende en su laberinto was a good movie. The director, Miguel Littin wanted to portray the last 7 hours of former President of Chile, Salvador Allende, inside Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. This movie was intended for all audiences, around the world to show a specific event that went down in history. The message the director portrays in this movie is hard to find, you kind of have to know the history of the event before watching it or you may be very confused. However, other than to make money, the director made this movie to show people all around the world how much killing and bombing went on that day. During this, it is in fact biased and only shows one side of the story, where the U.S. is the antagonist and wants to overthrow Allende and his government, while at the same time showing how much the Chilean people suffered, due to the decisions their President had made. However, because it is biased, it gives off the wrong impression because people will have very mixed opinions. We don't know the exact reasoning as to why the U.S. wanted to overthrow him, and it just makes Chile look like the only one that's the victim. On the other hand though, I personally have not seen any other movies made on this topic, and I don't think there's any other interpretation for it. However, the director accepts interpretations and portrays them very well, for example, showing the actual footage of the burning La Moneda Palace, and showing how destroyed it was during the movie also with a lot of smoke and fire. The quality of the film was good for the most part, however some things stood out that didn't look real at all. For example, the burning fire in the background not going anywhere, and the bombings definitely looked fake. You could hardly tell what was going on especially when they kept switching from scene to scene, and to top it off, they got really confusing at points and the actors did and said completely random things that made no sense at all, like the boys dad that they called "three fingers," you ask yourself, why does that even have to do with anything? On a better note, the only really good actor that made the film, was Daniel Muñoz, the man who played Salvadore Allende. He showed a lot of emotion and you can tell her cared about his role and took it very seriously.

The movie Allende en su Laberinto was directed by Miguel Littin in 2014. It seems that the director wanted to create a film that showed the true events that happened on September 11, 1973 at the Presidential Palace. It wanted to show how the Chilean military partnered with the United States in order to overthrow Allende from his power. This movie was created for the people of Chile in order to give them a dramatization of their own history. It was created to inform people about the topic and so Chileans do not forget what had happened. The director makes a point throughout the movie to show how the people in the Palace were all alone with no one to help. The police retreated and many people left the building. Allende was informed that the military has turned against him completely and no one would come to help. Allende finally established that he would stay to his death. The message of the story is very clear. It is obviously showing the viewers the events that happened on that day. The viewers did not have to dig in order to understand the movie. Throughout the movie, there was not any historical errors. The movie uses the accurate names and time of day the events happened. Overall, the director failed to inform the viewers enough on the reason as to why the military was overthrowing Allende. This film does seem bias because it shows the United States as the "bad guys" and the viewers do not get enough information about them in order to make their own judgement. Up until this point, there are documentaries about this topic. The way the director portrayed the events seemed to be accurate and reasonable. The film showed the events that happened accurately to my knowledge. Overall, this film was poorly made. The way the special effect were created were terrible. When the palace was getting blown up, the sound portrayed glass breaking and the walls collapsing, however none of this ever happened in the movie. Also the fire that was in the movie looked beyond fake and did not seem to affect any of the people in the building. As far as the acting goes, it seemed as if some dialogue did not belong in relevance to what was going on around them. There were people shooting and explosions sounding, however Allende had time to have deep conversations with people. Another issue was the audience did not get a view of what was happening on the outside of the palace. The movie did not show the opposing forces at all.

Jake Griffin Allende Movie Review

This movie is based on the history of Salvador Allende trying to get overthrown as the Chilean President by the military and influences of the United States. It portrays the betrayal of the Chilean military and how the United States influenced people to turn on their president. The director of "Allende en su laberinto" is Miguel Littin. He has directed over 10 movies. I think the director is pretty good for a southern American director. Compared to American directors however, he isn't that good… like at all. This film is clearly created four South America to enjoy.

The director clearly makes his point that the United States is the enemy here and they are the ones that virtually initiated the overthrow of Salvador Allende. The film makes its point that almost everyone turned on Allende, except his tight circle of people who would die for him, literally. I think the director did a good job to show that Salvador Allende was just trying to fix the country of Chile and generally be a peaceful guy about it.

I don't believe there are many historical inaccuracies in this film. From everything that I checked it seems to be very well made when it comes to the history. Except for the fact that Allende is thought to have killed himself and the movie portrays otherwise. Other than that not much historical inaccuracies. The director was most definitely biased however. He really made the point to make the United States look like the big bad villains in this movie. Every time Salvador Allende said "Nixon" he said it with pure hate. This movie, in a way, is anti United States.

The director made it his duty to tell us that The United States were the ones that were influencing people against Allende. But, he never really explained to us why the United States was doing this. He put so much effort into the USA looking like horrible villains, when he never really put in the script why they were doing it in the first place. After looking up information, I figured out that the United States wanted Allende overthrown because his ideas were to close to the ones of the Soviet Union, aka Communism. There's a documentary that was made in 2004 called "Salvador Allende" and IMDb rated it 7.7/10 stars. This was one of the only things I could find that related to this movie. A lot more people seemed to like this more than this movie and I haven't seen this documentary but I can say i'd probably agree based on just seeing this movie alone.

I think the actor that played Salvador Allende wasn't bad at all. He was definitely the best actor on the cast by far. The film itself, is not good. Its boring, hard to figure out what's going on during parts, and very very bad special effects. Like really really bad. I can maybe see this movie being big in Chile because this guy is like a big deal for them. But in America, this movie would be considered sucky and would not fly with the Hollywood blockbusters America is known for making. In Conclusion, if i had to rate this movie out of 5 stars, i'm gonna be generous and give it 3/10 stars.

Awful acting from Daniel Muñoz. He depicts Allende as a dilettante without any grasp of reality, as a womanizer and as a idiot. The directing of Muñoz is also to blame. All i all Allende is depicted like an comic-book Latino Napoleon. The USA is described as the big bad wolf, which they were, but not in the way it was described. The death of Allende is a ongoing point of discussion. Did he commit suicide or was he killed during the fighting. This is still discussed, but the movie don't come with an answer. The technical achievement was also well below par. After the movie ended I thought that it was sponsored by Pinochet-money, so bad was it.