Four Days in September
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The movie “Four Days in September” is based on a true story that accounts for the American Ambassador’s kidnapping, Charles Burke Elbrick, to Brazil in September 1969. It is a Brazilian film played by Alan Arkin. The drama starts when a group of young naïve idealists comes together to plan and exercise an act of terrorism because they believe it is their only way of giving voice to their liberal visions and dreams of a military regime. The kidnapping is interrupted by attempts to humanize undercover police tracking down MR-8 group members. The undercover police, Marco Ricca, tortures and eventually kills his sympathetic captive.
This is a finely written, judged, and acted movie that narrates an interesting story of revolutionary actions in pre-democratic Brazil. It is an excellent, worthwhile, and high-quality film that kept me entertained all through. The film narrates real-life events excitingly and unpredictably. However, it does not reveal the atmosphere of a tyrannical regime successfully. The filmmakers tell us it is an oppressive regime instead of showing us. They do not make us experience it along with the characters hence making the film less tense.
There are aspects of Latin American 20th century history portrayed in the film such as political instability and a long history of tensions between America and Latin America fueled the assaults and killings of the American diplomats, for example, the abduction of the American Ambassador by name Charles Burke Elbrick by the terrorist. The government opponents applied the Cold War to fight the government that sponsors torture and death; an example of such an event was when the terrorists kidnapped the American Ambassador. The dictatorship was forced to free some political prisoners. The prisoners showed signs of victory as they boarded a plane to Algeria in exchange for the abducted ambassador’s freedom.
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Four Days in September. (2015). [Film].
Abdale, J. R. (2016). Four Days in September: The Battle of Teutoburg. Pen and Sword.