Corralito translated means playpen, or small pen. In use it usually means the small fenced yard where you heard your livestock before feeding, butchering, milking and/or grooming. A small boxed area where you herd all your future wealth. The Spanish title of the film: La Odisea de los Giles; literally means the Twits' Oddessey. For Argentine viewers, this film makes much more sense, and is heartfelt enjoyment to watch. Some things just cannot be translated.
The Argentine Government's plan to implement the "corralito" involved collecting all U$ currency in people's bank accounts and giving them worthless credit so that the lying politicians could theoretically pay off the external debt. A quick Wiki search will tell you that they didn't! The corruption was unparalleled and indescribable! Many hard working "twits" lost everything they had saved overnight! Except, of course, the bankers and those in the know. They had withdrawn their dirty money before the herding and also grabbed anybody else's that they could snatch! The anger spilled onto the streets and many lost their lives and livihoods!
This movie is part heist, part revenge, and sprinkled with humour and heart to tell a fictionalised story about a cooperative of businesses seeking revenge. It gives all who lost their fortunes to a handful of sociopaths a moment of joy!
Ricardo Darín, the best Argentine actor in decades, is again a standout! United with his son, playing his son, Chino, and Brandoni, another standout Argentine celebrity, the cast put in a great performance!
It's no Ocean's 11, but if you lived the atrocities committed by foreign economists and enterprises on the people of Argentina, you'd fall in love with this film as much as I have! Hopefully after viewing it'll give you the push to do a little digging on what happened to a great nation, more than once!
The Argentine Government's plan to implement the "corralito" involved collecting all U$ currency in people's bank accounts and giving them worthless credit so that the lying politicians could theoretically pay off the external debt. A quick Wiki search will tell you that they didn't! The corruption was unparalleled and indescribable! Many hard working "twits" lost everything they had saved overnight! Except, of course, the bankers and those in the know. They had withdrawn their dirty money before the herding and also grabbed anybody else's that they could snatch! The anger spilled onto the streets and many lost their lives and livihoods!
This movie is part heist, part revenge, and sprinkled with humour and heart to tell a fictionalised story about a cooperative of businesses seeking revenge. It gives all who lost their fortunes to a handful of sociopaths a moment of joy!
Ricardo Darín, the best Argentine actor in decades, is again a standout! United with his son, playing his son, Chino, and Brandoni, another standout Argentine celebrity, the cast put in a great performance!
It's no Ocean's 11, but if you lived the atrocities committed by foreign economists and enterprises on the people of Argentina, you'd fall in love with this film as much as I have! Hopefully after viewing it'll give you the push to do a little digging on what happened to a great nation, more than once!