7/10
Power to the People
24 April 2024
This is the story of people of Venezuela that did not migrate, of those who were thankful of the agrarian reform made during the government of Hugo Chávez; the story of many persons who lived in self-supporting communes, and who seemed to be happy and fufilled working for their communities. This is the story of the crimes committed against them, of people that have been killed by the landowners' mafia. A "tale" of Venezuelan contemporary history that is not told in CNN or any other capitalist network. It is a beautiful but somehow overlong work, perhaps due to director Giulano Salvatore's strategy: to show the beauty of nature without any rush, to show these persons' vast rural habitat, where fresh waters flow and children played and also contributed to the commune. I have a soft heart whenever I watch peasants exposing their happiness, when they talk about the land they own and how they build an agrarian society with neighbors, with people who share. A dream that is often broken, as it has happened in many countries where people power was exerted during a brief period of time, in which human beings were positively human and better persons.

Supposedly this is part one of a trilogy of which there is no further information.
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