Fundo in Chile (1949)

★★★★★ · pre agrarian reform in chile and a lot of fantasia too · jose luis salazar (chile) · 2004-08-16

ok engaging to say the least these three films about chile in the 1940's definetively a gone past. i ask my mother about the peon - patron relationship and it was not as fantastic as is shown in here.(she was a rural teacher right nearby el fundo santa rosa chile's central region of curico.) Lot of abuses and a strog catholic church which sat foot in every single aspects of our lives. "don't think don't say and don't learn just do!" After the agrarian reform of the 60's and 70's (that ended up sppliting us in half as a country) there's no absentee landlords anymore. fundos are all now DOLE…

★★ · Not fundo at all · Spuzz · 2003-06-23

In this exploration of Chile, more specifically Chile's farming sector, we see the 'story' of 2 farmers, getting property from their dead dad, and how they proceed to take advantage of it. Farmer A does'nt really do anything and let's everything continue on as normal, putting on a 'if it aint broke, don't fix it stance' while farmer B goes into the latest technology and developments to achieve a high tech farm. On top of this, we have an exploration of the other parts of Chile. This really drags on for a while, which made me terribly bored. Although engaging at times (especially talking about…