LISA LYNAM:
This movie by far was very interesting inthe history of Argentina. The women of this era during war were very strong, they seemed to keep the family together. The men after there jobs became involved in war activities, but there families had no idea what was going on. No one can escape the regime of the military, although some are luckier than others. Alicia and Roberto were a very influential, safe, and fortunate family. Alicia was unable to have children and wanted a child badly. Roberto through his wealthy contacts got a baby for Alicia, her name was Gaby. Gaby was loved and cherished as if it was her own biological child.
The most moving part of the movie for me was the part when Alicia's friend Ana came back to town and told Alicia of her story of being exiled and kidnapped. She has no idea what happened to her, except that many people came and went wnd there children were taken away from them. After there talk Alicia believed that Gaby might be one of the missing babies on the news. As a history teacher of high school boys she taught them about different things and one of the students challenged her. Alicia embarks on a journey of hope to find Gaby's parents and through her findings may habve found her grandmother.
The Grandmother's of the Plaza de Mayo is a significant part of history. These women are very strong and looking for there families. The sign of hope and hopelessness that Alicia felt in trying to find Gaby's parents is real to her. This would not change the way she felt about Gaby. Gaby during her birthday party finds realization of a time of her life she was unaware of, by her cousins running around palying with guns. The ending of the movie inwhich Gaby is sitting in rocking chair singing nursey rhyme is parallel to Alicia waiting for he rparents to come home but they were in accident and no one told her til later in life. Gaby promotes the memory for Alicia.
Gaby does shoe idea of hope and hopelessness, but overall she is the sign of hope for Alicia because no matter what she will be loved and cared for equally. There is much contoversary between fact and emotion in htis film. Many of the emotions are based on feelings. There are the hope for the family in life. We all can identify with this as being parents ourselves.
Very moving part of history, with strong realization of hope and hoplessness.
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I do agree with you about the most moving part of the film being when Ana explains to Alicia what happened to her. You see the two sitting there talking, giggling about the past, but when Ana starts telling her story of being kidnapped because of her boyfriend who was a "subversive", and the torture she went through, at first Alicia was sad, showed a lot of emotion towards Ana. But when Ana started talking about how they took pregnant women and kept their babies after killing them and gave them to the more conservative people, who did't care where the children came from, Alicia's attitude changed toward Ana, because she knew right then, that Gaby was probably one of those children. That was what started Alicia on her journey to find the truth. That is when Alicia began feeling hopelessness because I do not feel that she was the type of person to just take something she wanted from someone else. The whole time Alicia was trying to search for answers she was still feeling hopeless, until the day she met Sara. I think she brought Sara to her home because she felt some type of hope that she was doing a good thing by finding out if Sara was infact Gaby's grandmother, and that she might be able to "fix" the problem by bringing her into their lives.
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