I mean, please....... another witch hunt of Americanised film-making. They'll milk it forever, if they manage to get the tourists and expats to agree and take an interest which is unlikely. One of the people said they want their children to say "and that's where so and so was tortured" when passing by, so now they want to traumatise their children? Another made a direct comparison with Germany when this is a different cultural context, despite Franco's political idealistic connections with Hitler. It's not clear what else has happened regarding these survivors and this history, and I agree it should be taught in schools. All the well-groomed healthy-looking people in this film reveal some trauma, and they are right to pursue the fate of their friends and relatives, but it also ends up looking like a revenge scenario where they chase old men in the street for their past governmental crimes because of "justice" but no one says what justice should result. Some members of the public said it should be left behind, so not everyone thinks the same way. One reason for this amnesty I suspect is political because many other European countries colluded, including UK. In the end I think they just want to hang people, and to what end? Most of them are in the final years of life. There are other ways to do this, like writing about their experiences, making films about their experiences, etc. I personally don't believe in pursuing the perpetrators because there is an element of reverse-scapegoating at play which I think is unnecessary now and because I think everyone had a hand in these crimes whether active or inactive, directly or indirectly, which is how they managed to continue for so long. That covers many regimes. In the end I thought it was a very sanitised, very partial and uninteresting doc, a cinematic view of the participants up close, though it did give a necessary voice to the victims.
Review of The Silence of Others
