I finally saw Missing, a 1982 film about political violence in Chile, staring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. It won an Oscar, was nominated for many more, and won 8 other awards at various film festivals. It has to be one of the most effective film attacks on the military state I’ve ever seen — the nightmare of random violence is overwhelming — the effect of which is to make it impossible to ever think a kind thought about General Pinochet and his regime, the rule of which is made out to be the reincarnation of Hitler complete with concentration … Continue reading Never Trust a Commie