“Papa is mad.” This is the conclusion Guillermo, one of the sons of Arquímedes Puccio after he has long viewed the happenings in the family home. He laced his package, booking a flight, whereas that is not know his brother, although getting it to the gate to take more, but no longer can change his mind. Guillermo runs away, he will prefer by bringing himself to be a much longer part of a family business that specializes in abductions.
He leaves a traditional Argentine family, with the white-haired Arquímedes as head, two daughters and two sons. Actually, there are three, but one always marks precisely this gap that suggests a bad conscience. The vacancy of Guillermo does not remain empty for long, because suddenly comes back another brother from New Zealand. Maguila lunges with Elan in the brutal business, as if his long absence had nothing to do with scruples. He is a stooge, while his father can hardly feel behind a mostly cool, friendly appearance atrocities.
It is in every respect an extraordinary family story told by Pablo Trapero in “El Clan”. It centers on a concept that is central to the recent history of Argentina: It’s about “disappearances”, “desaparecidos”. 1983 the military dictatorship was overcome to the system it was easy to attract people from the market, to make it disappear.
disposed over the open sea
1983 is also the year leaves on the Trapero run the saga of “El Clan” – the historic date associated with a different perspective on this time, a pop-culture, a daily history. As the patriarch Arquímedes (fascinatingly played by Guillermo Francella) at the beginning even the word “desaparecido” used as of Maguila is mentioned, one could for a moment believe that the thing with New Zealand would be only a language regime, the son would be in truth been disappeared in the dungeons of the regime and perhaps dispose of the open sea, as was customary at the time.
But the criminal enterprises of Puccios can only function because it is covered “from above”, because it protection enjoys. A “Commodore” is the next instance, it belongs to the inner circle of power that begins to crumble straight. Pablo Trapero holds contemporaneous events to present, on a small television sets that were common at that time. The Puccios could sit on the couch and look at the younger daughter is the only one who long has no idea that behind the wine racks a secret chamber located in the basement, in which a woman is imprisoned. However, their relatives are not willing at any price to pay a ransom. But that’s just one more detail. The Puccios are due.
The favorite son is passed around
Strong Fathers often have a favorite son, who is also here like that. The Wuschelkopf Alejandro, Alex called, enjoys not only his father’s trust, he is generally popular, also because he is an outstanding rugby star. In the big family events, which begins “El Clan” he gets passed around, you can see an urban middle class, which is dressed in the latest fashions.
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the fact that the majority are profiteers of the regime, is an implication that only gradually adjusts. Alejandro carries the central conflict of the film with himself. He will one day take over the operation, that is, in this case, but not only that it can open a surfer shop with the ransom, but that night he still rises to the motorcycle to drive to a transfer. Alex is caught in his role, the more, as the victims of kidnappings are personally known to him. It is also true player of Pumas, his rugby team. Alex himself has to provide them with the trap and then fainted watch as Arquímedes and his cronies not release the victim, but kill and simply drop anywhere
Torture and love -. Accompanied by a summer hit
the madness of the father is only becoming more apparent, he returns in the morning the sheets before loading away, like he was a typical representative of small businesses, a righteous man who has nothing to reproach himself. Here everything to him “the greatest in the scene” is anxious to be. He escapes thereby only having the “scene” has long changed.
Pablo Trapero has not just hit with “El Clan” political history in the guise of a mafia thriller. He is concerned obviously about those gray areas that make up the daily life in a dictatorship is often. Sometimes he lights up gray areas of a little too much, if it shows in the same assembly as Alex lounge around with his new girlfriend, while the father torturing one of his teammates, all underscored by a summer hit of 1983 from the radio. Inflation, of between once in a media report is mentioned, is also one of the moral certainties. “El Clan” tells of a shocking everyday way to Alejandro did finally draws conclusions -. In a spectacular final scene, of which alone already worth to expose himself to the madness of Arquímedes Puccio
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