Released in June, 2006, The Land Of The Blind is a reminder of the history of tyranny masquerading as democracy. It's full of imagery that one NY Times reviewer called "cliché". He's right. Repression, murder, rape, brainwashing,…
Released in June, 2006, The Land Of The Blind is a reminder of the history of tyranny masquerading as democracy. It's full of imagery that one NY Times reviewer called "cliché". He's right. Repression, murder, rape, brainwashing, torture and assassination have become clichés, but you have to know history to catch the imagery. This is the story of every Latin American despot, from Papa Doc (Duvalier), Baby Doc, the perverted Trujillos, Somosa, Pinochet, Peron, Stroessner, and the guerrillas, terrorists, populists, socialists and communists who tried to overthrow them in the name of Freedom and Democracy.
Historical references in the film include: Jean-Paul Marat (from the French Revolution), Kim Jong-Il, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, François Duvalier, Rudolph Hess, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Lyndon B. Johnson, Julius Caesar (from William Shakespeare's play), Robert Mugabe, Ngo Dinh Diem, Idi Amin, the PIRA Maze prison protests, U.S. POWs in Vietnam, the Weathermen terrorist group, the Khmer Rouge, the 1979 Revolution in Iran and the subsequent Cultural Revolution.
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