Azor (2021)
My main knowledge about the military junta in Argentina comes from the movie Clandestine Childhood, and this movie is providing even less contextual exposition, so I probably didn’t get as much out of it as I could have.
Most of the movie is basically just business people talking in fancy looking hotels and restaurants. Could be set anywhere in the world. There is a point to that we barely see any regular Argentinian citizens, because this shows how people with power and money have just normalized the oppressive state and are working within that to make money. The dictatorship is barely acknowledged and this made it hard for me to distinguish what separated this from any normal business deals, and that could be entirely intentional. It shows that with enough normalization, there isn’t any difference if you willingly turn a blind eye to the real consequences for real people in what you are doing. In that sense, it is a bit similar to The Zone of Interest but with even more distance and subtlety.
Rating: 3.5