Un diario, que, desde 1869, se basa en la independencia, el respeto al hombre privado, el ataque razonado al hombre público y no a la personalidad individual.
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Agregado Cultural, Domingo 17 de Mayo
Outside of the Gaumont Theatre, famous hub for Buenos Aires' cinematographers and public alike
If there is one thing that the government does, and that this newspaper doesn't like at all, is censorship. Multiple books, poems, songs and paintings have been cut, "fixed" or outright banned by the government ever since they came to power. However, there is still a form of media that hasn't been completely censored by the government yet: film. The "Public Broadcasting, Media and Art Administration" has yet to pass extensive legislation on film, and, seeing as it is an art form that only reaches a small fraction of the population in the big cities, they probably won't interfere for a good while. While the censorship boards debate the more classical forms of art, innovative and opinionated film directors take to the screen to portray the Republic's current situation: one of despair like it has seen many times before. Such is the case with Amalia, a new film by Manuel Romero and Argentina Sono Film, a historical drama set during the Argentine Civil War, as a man who follows Rosas and the Unitarios flees Buenos Aires after being hurt in combat and meets Amalia, a widowed woman from the countryside, as they both develop a mutual appreciation and love for each other, only for their story to be cut short by the Mazorca, the time's paramilitary police. It draws many parallels to our currently divided, censored and scared society, where not even love is allowed to flourish under the heavy boot of the government's lackeys, like our modern-day Mazorca, the Servicio Federal de Seguridad, which follows every citizen's lives as if they were subjects for scientific examination. Another tale directly criticising the Government and its policies is Los Muchachos de Abordo (The Boys On Board), a romance set in the present, where a conscripted sailor fights with a superior over the love of a woman, touching on important modern subjects like mandatory military service, women's rights and the collapsing tenets of the old society being replaced with the new.
For now, we can only hope that the PBMAA doesn't notice what is happening in front of the projector's lens.
-Ezequiel Paz
