el cielo

This hefty piece of nonfiction is in the works.

It's stretching my mind more than it has been stretched in a long time. Some of it is hard to take in.

The concept of eternity when you really think about it, is difficult to comprehend. Driving to school today, I thought about how hard it is to think that the life we live in eternity will last forever. Time won't affect it like it does here. I wont grow old. I'll remain where I am always. That in itself is tearing the sides of the boxes in my head.

and then ... there's so much more

Cautiva

Imagine finding out you aren't who you've been told you are. You were actually adopted, your mother was blind-folded and beaten up when she had you. Your parents, those people you thought you were born to, have lied your whole life. And your real parents have been missing, and are proposed dead.

This is what Christina is told one day at school.

Her best friend turns against her and her godfather is partly to blame for sending her real parents to a concentration camp that existed in downtown Buenos Aires during the 1978 World Cup era when Argentina won.

This tale, although one of fiction, is based on true events and real stories from those who lived under the leadership of President Jorge Videla.

At the end of the film, viewers are told that nearly 30,000 people are said to have disappeared during the Dirty War of Argetina. Many political dissidents where drugged and then pushed out of airplanes flying over the Rio de Plata which runs into the Atlantic Ocean. Some dissidents were sent to torture camps in the hands of the country's naval mechanic school in B.A.


Anyone who has listened to Mana (their version of the original by Rubén Blades) or U2 might have heard the story of the "desaparecidos" or the disappeared. U2's song is about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a still-active human rights group of mothers of the victims of the dictatorship.

The after-effects still linger, and the story of Sofia (turned Christina) reminds the viewers the old, scientific equation that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.



*The following is from Wikipedia*

Many women gave birth in captivity; they were then killed and their children given illegally in adoption to families and friends of military or police personnel. The task of locating these children and restoring their lost identity has been going on since the restoration of democracy in 1983. Legal proceedings were taken against those involved in these actions even while amnesties were in place for other crimes by the military since appropriating children from their mothers is a crime that lies outside the scope of military procedures, and thus also outside any kind of amnesty law or pardon that implies orders in a military context.