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NO. Directed by Pablo Larrain. 2012. Chile: Sony Pictures Classic, 2012. DVD. The film’s setting is in 1988 during Chile’s Berlin Wall moment. The genre of the film is drama and historical fiction. The film was directed by Pablo Larrain in 2012. The major actors in the film were Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro, and Luis Gnecco. There was only one actress in the film and that was Antonia Zegers. NO was a very dramatic and inspirational movie that showed the hardships of people’s lives in Chile. It was very intense throughout the whole movie with the military’s rough involvement with the President Augusto Pinochet. The film was put together very well and stayed with the main topics of the movie the entire time. It had great editing, actors, screenplay, and dialogue. There were no mistakes anywhere throughout the film. The film also had a great sense of what the world in 1988 in Chile looked like and how a person dresses, they were spot on with the costumes. The film was very interesting and it really opened my eyes to how harsh the presidents and the military behind them were. The film …show more content…

These three themes were the ones that caught my eye the most. Military was the biggest because of how much influence they had over the people and also how they could just push around and threaten people without even getting in trouble for it. The government was another big player because they had rule over everyone and could make all the decisions that would affect the people of Chile. Then we have President Pinochet, who decided to bring attention up his international legitimacy by holding an election to decide whether he should continue as president of Chile. That right there just came across as big headed and cocky. Pinochet just gave me a bad vibe right when he did that in the film because I knew he thought he had this vote right in the bag because the people of Chile were

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