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This year ARTE also broadcast the movie "El Clan" (2015) from Argentina based on a real family's story I would not have believed if someone was telling me although I believe a lot of things concerning incredible behaviours of human beings.
In my opinion, this story shows the impossibility to have a normal life in a normal human society if you are committing the worst criminal acts at the same time.
A man who worked together with the Junta in abducting "enemies of the state" was having the idea to use his criminal knowledge even after the end of the dictatorship by going on with kidnapping people for ransom, killing them before the ransom was paid and involving former friends from the Junta and even parts of his family by telling them it is necessary to do all these crimes in order to keep up the standard of living.
Certainly, the problems inside the familiy are increasing more and more, one son wants to leave because he fears the future if being discovered as criminal family, one princess-like daughter who lives in a school internat paid by the ransom wants to know where the cryings in the cellar are coming from and in the end, the fourth victim is a mistake: An elderly woman with links to highest ranks in the normal police which sets all informants under pressure and finally finds out who was behind her kidnapping.
So, one night, the normal criminal police storms the house of the family which has now for the first time to suffer like the victims.
In one scene, the crying innocent daughter is sitting next to the last victim of the father, both victims of human madness.
The mixture of scenes is sometimes "crazy", probably to show how crazy this family's life must have been in reality:
The first male victim is forced to write by his own hands that he is well treated by his kidnappers and where his relatives have to hand over the ransom and at the same time there is a sex scene of the kidnapper's son with his girl-friend, loud music behind and in the following scene the victim is shot and buried in the night - all scenes shown alternating several times with each other in some minutes. During the kidnappings, the criminal father is helping his kids with the homework. Before the end of the movie, this son of the sex scenes beats up his father and tries to commit suicide in the country's biggest court of justice by jumping from the fifth floor in one of the most shocking-surprisingly suicide scenes in movie history without any visible cut: The camera follows the jumping young man up on the ceiling and down to the ground without visible stop.
The movie is ending with texts dealing with the family member's fates but it leaves you somehow with the feeling that you should never really expect justice to be done in this world because the human madness could go on everywhere at any time and only death is ending everything.
In my opinion, this story shows the impossibility to have a normal life in a normal human society if you are committing the worst criminal acts at the same time.
A man who worked together with the Junta in abducting "enemies of the state" was having the idea to use his criminal knowledge even after the end of the dictatorship by going on with kidnapping people for ransom, killing them before the ransom was paid and involving former friends from the Junta and even parts of his family by telling them it is necessary to do all these crimes in order to keep up the standard of living.
Certainly, the problems inside the familiy are increasing more and more, one son wants to leave because he fears the future if being discovered as criminal family, one princess-like daughter who lives in a school internat paid by the ransom wants to know where the cryings in the cellar are coming from and in the end, the fourth victim is a mistake: An elderly woman with links to highest ranks in the normal police which sets all informants under pressure and finally finds out who was behind her kidnapping.
So, one night, the normal criminal police storms the house of the family which has now for the first time to suffer like the victims.
In one scene, the crying innocent daughter is sitting next to the last victim of the father, both victims of human madness.
The mixture of scenes is sometimes "crazy", probably to show how crazy this family's life must have been in reality:
The first male victim is forced to write by his own hands that he is well treated by his kidnappers and where his relatives have to hand over the ransom and at the same time there is a sex scene of the kidnapper's son with his girl-friend, loud music behind and in the following scene the victim is shot and buried in the night - all scenes shown alternating several times with each other in some minutes. During the kidnappings, the criminal father is helping his kids with the homework. Before the end of the movie, this son of the sex scenes beats up his father and tries to commit suicide in the country's biggest court of justice by jumping from the fifth floor in one of the most shocking-surprisingly suicide scenes in movie history without any visible cut: The camera follows the jumping young man up on the ceiling and down to the ground without visible stop.
The movie is ending with texts dealing with the family member's fates but it leaves you somehow with the feeling that you should never really expect justice to be done in this world because the human madness could go on everywhere at any time and only death is ending everything.
The Clan (2015 film) - Wikipedia
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