ARA San Juan: O Submarino que Desapareceu

I started watching the series with a lot of expectations. Unfortunately, by the end of the first episode I had already found out that it was a disgusting piece of political propaganda.

Interviewed people are completely biased, even when one takes into account their personal grief of the crew´s relatives.

The so-called "naval expert" Fernando Morales (a merchant seaman) appears wearing a uniform with non-existent rank insignias, and speaks about virtually everything, from politics to psychology. There´s this pathetic character, Mariano Pi, who belongs to a group of self-appointed researchers, who tries to tear down scientific evidence with nothing but unfounded assumptions. And the same goes for Sergio Díaz.

Virtually all the people interviewed are completely partial in their statements.

What could be a very nice piece of documentary turned into a cheap political flyer.

The critical aspects of this tragedy are overshadowed by Netflix horrible voice talents. I actually found myself laughing at the presentation of translations-I couldn't continue knowing how inappropriate it was to laugh.

The victims and families of the tragedy would be better honored by bilingual voice talent who were not pretending to be actors.

There are many other failures in this documentary. Overall, this fails because it was created with poor intentions, misrepresenting the failure in the search, the cover up is only briefly addressed (up to the point I had to shut it off), and the lack of representing the families' frustrations and anger.

As a New Zealander, I watched this without any partiality or knowledge of the event.

Obviously I initially felt for the family, but as the documentary progresses it becomes evident that certain family members, and their representative, became toxic. They adopted nonsensical, counter-intuitive conspiracies, hurt officials that did nothing wrong, like Claudio Villamide and Marcelo Eduardo Hipólito Srur being wrongfully dismissed.

It is clear that no answer will ever satisfy these people. They want to see as many people punished as possible, regardless if those people did anything wrong. Their judgement has gone out the window due to their grief. Rather than coming to terms with their loss, they have given themselves over to being perpetually difficult. It is sad.

Don't let the macrists tax dodgers fool you, they just hate the country, the truth, and people kwowing the truth; this doc is good and is also well made. If their beloved politicians didn't want to comment and defend themselves, well... that's too bad, my son: silence is consent.

The doc is good, it covers many theories discussed althroughout the years, good and bad, and provides proof to discard the flimsiest ones. I don't want to spoil which ones but both sides came up with some weak, Mulder-y theories and this series buries them deep in the Atlantic, but I guess some people really want to believe it was a certain lady's fault so whatever proves it wrong will be disappointing.

The doc spends a great deal of time with the relatives of the submariners and how the government treated them and the situation, spoilers: they did so as your run of the mill psychopath would, no surprise there. They spied on the relatives, they berated them in their faces, and even tried to make a buck while at it-as they often did and are doing again right now in 2024 because they are back in the game- by not listening to their wishes and recommendations.

The truth is not quite out there, because we still don't know what happened to those 44 heroes, but at least we know who is keeping it a secret that probably will never be known.

Creators of this film contribute to the debacle of Argentina, a country rich in natural resources, potential and opportunity, but that somehow managed to host ignorants and obtuse people who wish Communism to be the ruling political party.

People who hate capitalism and all sort of meritocracy because themselves recognise to be incapable of absolutely everything.

This film was made to blame the President at the time of the incident, yet ignored the fact that the previous one, Ms Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced and recommissioned the submarine without any proper auditing or refitting. Most likely it represented just another empty announcement made with actual money being transferred to the pockets of few politicians.

Absolute garbage of a film and dubious characters and charlatans, all paid to create stories and quite typical of the of Argentine cinema and its shameful representatives.