It's fine.
It's trial movie with some light comedy. But largely it's just a drama and often cringe family drama. There is no deep trial work to be seen. No law is mentioned whatsoever. No clever investigations. Just prosecutors inviting witnesses and letting them talk about the torture they experienced in dictatorial Argentina. Of course the trial itself is historically significant, but that's not really making a movie.
It's quite ... fine. It does the basics. Presents the trial as it happened via some fake melodrama like people getting angry or sad at small stuff. You know how this goes. The movie itself is fine it's just that there is barely enough story for 90 minutes here. But this is a 2:20 hour long movie! A lot of the scenes are just people eating, smoking, looking at stuff, looking sad, talking about their worries. Everything is stretched out to fill out the runtime. Which is a great shame as some of the comedic scenes do work fairly well. It's just that you can't have a slow and dry comedy. And as there is nothing technical and no detective work the movie script really has not enough depth to have this kind of runtime.
I wouldn't really recommend it. But I don't regret watching it. It's just one more movie among many. And I guess I learned a bit about history here. But a documentary could have told more in less time. It's also quite dark in colors and gloomy. Could have been better for sure. But if you really love the topic of the movie go ahead and watch it.
It's trial movie with some light comedy. But largely it's just a drama and often cringe family drama. There is no deep trial work to be seen. No law is mentioned whatsoever. No clever investigations. Just prosecutors inviting witnesses and letting them talk about the torture they experienced in dictatorial Argentina. Of course the trial itself is historically significant, but that's not really making a movie.
It's quite ... fine. It does the basics. Presents the trial as it happened via some fake melodrama like people getting angry or sad at small stuff. You know how this goes. The movie itself is fine it's just that there is barely enough story for 90 minutes here. But this is a 2:20 hour long movie! A lot of the scenes are just people eating, smoking, looking at stuff, looking sad, talking about their worries. Everything is stretched out to fill out the runtime. Which is a great shame as some of the comedic scenes do work fairly well. It's just that you can't have a slow and dry comedy. And as there is nothing technical and no detective work the movie script really has not enough depth to have this kind of runtime.
I wouldn't really recommend it. But I don't regret watching it. It's just one more movie among many. And I guess I learned a bit about history here. But a documentary could have told more in less time. It's also quite dark in colors and gloomy. Could have been better for sure. But if you really love the topic of the movie go ahead and watch it.