Allende en su laberinto

The movie Allende en su Laberinto is a great movie. The film was about Salvador Allende's last hours of being president. It showed how the military did not like Allende and how they overthrew the government. It also showed how and why the United States got involved in the war. This movie was created for people who like history and for the people who is interested in the history of Chili. Miguel Littin did a good job with writing and directing. I liked the part of the movie where the President gave his last speech. He did a good job capturing everyone feelings at the time. Daniel Munoz did a good job acting as president. They captured was it was like being president.

This movie premiered on last thursday, and i went to watch it today at Cinemark Alto Las Condes. This movie is about the last 7 hours of the former president of Chile Salvador Allende and shows us how Salvador and his collaborators experienced the coup d'etat inside "La Moneda" (Chilean Government Palace) and how they tried to resist the bombing done by the Air Force ordered by the Junta Militar.

I have to say that Daniel Muñoz did a very good job acting as Salvador Allende and also Aline Kuppenheim did a great acting too, but i was really disappointed when i saw the supporting actors and actress, when they were saying the lines they didn't sound real at all.

Miguel Littin has good directing skills, i'm not sure if he wanted to, but this movie is a little bit similar to Der Untergang (downfall), which shows Hitler's last hours inside the Bunker before the allies bombed Berlin.

It's great that this movie finally could be filmed in La Moneda, that made it a little bit more realistic, the problem is that the visual effects aren't good at all, the bombings looks very fake, the fire and the smoke too, and the camera movement is annoying sometimes.

I gave this movie 6 stars out of 10. If you are chilean or you are interested in Chilean history, you should definitely watch it, but don't expect a very good movie.

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.

When I was a kid and my dad talked to me about the last hours of President Allende on La Moneda, I thought to myself: "Wow, there should really be a movie about that", and here it is. First of all i'd like to talk about the acting, Daniel Muñoz gives an excellent performance as Allende, as well as the cast, which was also very great. The direction is very good too, Miguel Littin does a great job on that. You can really feel the sense of hopelessness and betrayal that surrounds the attacks on La Moneda. The film is shot really well too, the sets, the makeup, everything is well done. My only issues with the film is that sometimes the dialogue seems a little bit unrealistic and that the CGI looks fake, but they don't use it too much though, so it's not very much of a problem. That aside, "Allende En Su Laberinto" is a very good movie with great performances, definitely worth your time.

8 out of 10

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.