<div>thanks yama and sebastian!</div><div>downloading too!</div><div><br></div>i lately discovered some other great movies that show about life in other places around latinamerica... <div>1) "La Zona Sur" from Bolivia</div>
<div>2) "Qué tan lejos"from Ecuador </div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div><br clear="all">Kiko Mayorga<br>i+d ata/<a href="http://escuelab.org" target="_blank">escuelab.org</a><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@somosazucar.org">sebastian@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm sure there are concrete ways to help uruguayan cinema but probably the first is to watch it.<br>
I'm downloading from:<br>
<a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_del_Papa_2007_ibarak" target="_blank">http://thepiratebay.org/<u></u>torrent/5665298/El_BaA_A_o_<u></u>del_Papa_2007_ibarak</a><br>
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Ahoy,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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El 02/07/11 19:20, Yamandu Ploskonka escribió:<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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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...<br>
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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.<br>
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I could almost smell that house, those streets...<br>
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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.<br>
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Wife asked if I had ever smuggled when in Uruguay. I have.<br>
(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)<br>
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