Synopsis of Dungeon Memories: The film was shortlisted for the Horizon Unit Award at the 75th Venice Film Festival (2018). Uruguay's "Rush olympic film" this year. Adapted from the true story of the period of Uruguay's military dictatorship. In 1973. Uruguay is ruled by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners were taken from their cells during a covert military operation. The command was accurate: "Because we can't kill them, let's go crazy." "The three men will be held in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them, Jose Mujica - later became president of Uruguay. Release Date: 2018-09-01 (Venice Film Festival) / 2018-11-23 (Spain) Runtime: 122 minutes
Film content: 3500+ days of detention without human dignity, harsh environment so that people can get schizophrenia, three fighters hellish experience portrayed in the film of the wind bone piercing heart, no wind time, no peer communication time, inhumane abuse, spiritual and physical double blows.
After-effects: A rare opportunity to learn a part of Uruguay's history through the film, but also left some thoughts and questions: South America in the post-colonial era of the military regime, the relationship between Uruguay and the Spanish suzerainty, after Spain withdrew, who took over Uruguay, which agent of the national government? The film praises Mujica from the perspective of revolutionary romanticism, so how does history evaluate the revolutionary terrorist activities of the ultra-left organization that Mujica joined and the achievements of the president after 2010? It is also possible to see the 12 years of the dungeon as an experiment in the state of human existence in an extremely lonely situation, and the film adds the companion power of the secret code communication halfway through, but this bridge section seems unreasonable, since the purpose of the internee is to go crazy through loneliness, why do two prisoners live next to each other after several moves? Are faith and passion really worth celebrating?
"A true warrior, dare to face the bleak life, dare to face the dripping blood." What kind of mourners and happy people are this? However, creation is often designed for the mediocre, using the flow of time to wash away the old traces, leaving only reddish blood and indifferent sorrow. In this pale red blood and indifferent sorrow, he gave people a temporary life, maintaining this inhuman world. I don't know when such a world will be an end! "O bird imprisoned in a cage yearning for freedom, that tragic and compassionate intracranial resistance, the message transmitted by the broken bones of the hand, the eyes that look at the dark night and the stars will also shed tears, twelve years of time turned into a piece of earth, covering the blood and tears of the nation and individuals, and living towards freedom forever and unremittingly.
Trapped in a square prison, longing for brilliant fireworks, tapping on the wall to talk to relieve the loneliness of captivity. Take every second of your breath in the sun, whisper in silence, and play invisible soccer in a scream. Isolated from the world for twelve years, dancing in shackles, the will to resist is not extinguished. If this were their last poem, both rebellious and melancholy, exhausted but physically and mentally intact, they would remember the perseverance of their companions and blow the trumpet of freedom.
A film of calm contains power, some things some people always deserve our admiration, although it is dull to watch, in the end it is still very touching, for democracy, for faith, every nation has fighters, and the 75-year-old president is strong!