This week in class we watched Patricio Guzman’s Chile, La Memoria Obstinada from 1997. The film was made when Guzman first came back to his home country of Chile after being exiled for more than 2 decades, 8 years after Pinochet’s dictatorship ended. What struck me the most was the interviews with younger people in universities and schools. It was very emotional and shocking to see that these young people did not know much about the official history of their country, as the ban on media and censorship lasted throughout the dictatorship and lingered after the return to presidential democracy. Their reactions to La Batalla de Chile made me wonder if the trilogy has even really been screened officially with a long running period in Chilean movie theaters, or if the film is ever shown or discussed in Chilean universities and/or high schools now in the present day. I was also stunned by the dissolves and cuts that Guzman uses throughout his documentary to show the comparison between the past and present of a nation still dealing with the repercussions of fascism and extreme  human rights violations.