The Pearl Button is Patricio Guzmán’s 2015 documentary about the connections between Chilean indigenous groups and missing detainees from the Pinochet era, in relation to the setting of the Chilean pacific ocean and the Chilean patagonia. An important scene for me was when Guzmán interviews the few members of the indigenous communities that are left; he asks them to speak in their own language and translate words from Spanish to their own indigenous languages. I thought these scenes were very powerful as these subjects are speaking dying languages that very few people know. I’m also surprised at how Guzmán is able to intertwine the political stories between the indigenous communities and the Chileans who were detained during the dictatorship, especially those in Dawson Island. Guzmán shows the audience that he is repeatedly able to show the connections between land/setting and his subjects who are victims of political oppression.