[IAEP] [OT] the Pope's Toilet (Uruguayan movie)

[kikomayorga]

thanks yama and sebastian!
downloading too!

i lately discovered some other great movies that show about life in other
places around latinamerica...
1) "La Zona Sur" from Bolivia
2) "Qué tan lejos"from Ecuador

thanks,

Kiko Mayorga
i+d ata/escuelab.org



On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at somosazucar.org>wrote:

> I'm sure there are concrete ways to help uruguayan cinema but probably the
> first is to watch it.
> I'm downloading from:
> http://thepiratebay.org/**torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_**
> del_Papa_2007_ibarak<http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_del_Papa_2007_ibarak>
>
> Ahoy,
> Sebastian
>
> El 02/07/11 19:20, Yamandu Ploskonka escribió:
>
>  Just finished watching The Pope's Toilet, a Uruguayan movie telling of
>> parental sacrifice, poverty, relation with authority, dreams of the young
>> and of the old...
>>
>> Great movie, highly recommended if you want to have a better idea of how
>> real Uruguayans live or survive, especially among the urban less well-to-do.
>> Many elements I found highly accurate: the bar where the group of friends
>> meet every afternoon, the neighborhood, small-time smuggling as a way of
>> life for many - protectionism and import taxes make many "legal" imports
>> unaffordable, thus Brazilian products have forever been a gray-area option,
>> indeed considered by many as the very origin of the Uruguayan nationhood.
>>
>> I could almost smell that house, those streets...
>>
>> If you watch it, do notice the "need" of the daughter to go to study to
>> Montevideo, how that is interpreted by his mother, father, peers and the
>> "friendly" older lady, that one with a hint of ulterior motives, by the
>> customs officer who is quite outright on what *he* wants... How much she
>> believes in her mom's desire, that after she graduates she will come back.
>>
>> Wife asked if I had ever smuggled when in Uruguay.  I have.
>> (to admit something like that sounds strange - us Uruguayans feel it's
>> entirely normal, even the wife of President Sanguinetti shared her
>> adventures.  Moreover, my experience was during an official school trip,
>> where everybody came back at least with many layers of T-shirts - and
>> chocolate!  I can say it was quite the bonding experience)
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