THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300100009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 27, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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t, black Or-white or brown, there
o slightest reason to believe the
oitipressed are the moral superior.
pays;lent of the forelgr, debt, a}1 ]n.teI'- Wes
fered with foreign rover- Illcnts and is n
rnnIiol. The US conspired in the the
(Third World Cinema Group)
r
Rainpart:S o-. C.ay
(Cinema V)
-pro democratic move, actually to in- better if and when they triui npls; out
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stall regime more friendly to its in-- that's hardly a reason for t}heoppresscc
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fluence. Post--Peron governments, like to -accept things as they arc, par ticu-
earlier ones, have been oligarchic, larly if they are the majority.
plutocratic, militaristic, and brutally So we come to the nub of the matter:
repressive, and have depended heavily the advocacy of violence. In politics,
on outside -cultural and economic re I don't see hone a view on violence can
sources. The large: t political party in be held as a universal absolute, which
Argentina is still the Peronist one; it is why many of us who object to the
can be the spearhead of a people's Vietnam tear still do not call ourselves
revolution which is what- is needed in pacifists. The 'Argentine peasant, who
all Latin America. "Two, three, more- has inherited generations of wretched-
Vietirarns," as Clue said. Hess, who lias seen women and children
All the above is subject to some machine-gunned by police, is in a very
question, even on the basis of super- different emotional an(j, I think, moral
ficial knO?,vlcdge like lni;u. But the Fosilion, in regard to violence, from
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size of the Peronist bloc (~0 to ~4,o per the American university student Who-is
tint of the population) and the possible (rightly) protesting the campus pres-
The flown' of the Fuineccs is a film phe-- alliance bctWeen I'eronisni and the far once of Dow Chemical. Although it is
left were reported in The New York chilling to see this film conic three
rhonlenon and a phenomenal fih;l. This
1 y N'falcolm W. 1 ro?.cne, on Oct. times to a climactic call for violent revo
Argentine doetmhelitary runs four lotion I think tha
'hrnars and 1+,aenty mina t to c,eihlore it in
to>, plus t',vo in- 3, 970. Anti-A;nciicanisnl is a great r
:
unifying fo ice anion political factions terms of the nonviolent campaigns
termissions,. and is a clear, tulznlbivu which Otte advocates in the US; is A-
ous call for revolutionary violence. It in t.atin 'America. If~it be argued that
there are Latin-American eotn.triCS most to verge on the smug. Its a bit
was directed by Fernando Sola:las, 35,
who wrote the sc ipt with Octavio riluch worse off than Argenti
Getino, 36. (Solanas also hhotOgr ap na, there like people on a diet telling the under-
tned, c is also a countr} ? - Urug>'ua} ? - that has fed that they're better off thin. If vio
Getino did the sound.) Both of then always been much better off; and sec lence is immoral, as it objc'ctiveIY is,
the recent history of their Tupama ros. wt- still' have to recognize that there
.have been making .short films in the situations vnc~re objectivity is it11-
past decade. Their work here is sonic- Besides the questions that play never- are stimes. crude, sometimes st!cjpC t; and is
theless be asked of the film's facts, ossible; that there are situations
p
where violence may have to be used to
pia, there are also questions about their
certainly not unfailingly gtll t but q drive Out even-oreater inlnloralitic'.
they 1-uavc made an impressive and ve preservation. 1'Vhat's the point of the v
aor slaughterhouse scenes? Argentina In terms. of eineriha technique and
hentent film of immense ener~v. g or 0
It has three main sections, "\eo- lives by beef production, and will do imagination, Sol=Has has clone every
colonialism and Violence," "Act for so presurl.a.bly under the most popular thing he could -to mike his work a
Liberation ;' " Viplencc and Liberation," goverlhlllent. I'Ve are told ominously filar -- to. break out- of the old booby-
o trap ~ of Fro4gagtnda: which is that
?
anti there are numerous strbsec[icns? To twice - that four Feor}^ cite a minute . to ,arlnda fihns rarely Q.
they Oilc tip th
for a knowledge of Argentina--and a is also the rate in the US'. We are one's sired, orytllh atsceptiblee e copy of the script! - to which I' won't told that true culture depends on the True, hey convinced says n halfway through Part
pretend. The thesis, varied and rc- cQniplete. liberation of man -- in which True, his halfway
is not for Whr
pe'ated,'supported with newsclil-s, corn- case we Will never have, true culture. Two
but I think that for
{ (I would have thought that one rea- spectators, w by 1
mentaries, quotations, statistics, an thought 1-
Latin-
son for art is that plan is not -corn- 'he hopes to have hooked those -Latin-
interviews, can be stated fairly simply: Americans, anyway wo started as
Argentina began as a Spanish colony , pletely liberated, and will not be.) We e sF'
~ctahas worked. is
g beaten by' a
and, after indcpendcncc (.tsi ), con- are sho+,vrh a man being make his icture visunll interesting
tinued as an economic and cultural 'group of men in mufti, then being F 1 J g '
colony of Great Britain. The US de- dragged face down through the mud, He used to worms oil advertising films,
110"' do the kn,o?,v that he wasn't aStnd one can see it in his .use of varying
veloped great interests the..a and, optical tecluli ues for the man voids
through this century US' a-.' er has CIA agent who tried to get into a Peq y r
supplanted British potyer, t lO:I h the ronist meeting? There are many in- on screen. The editing is sharp, often
with. staccato intercutting of action and
British still have a strong cultural hold, stances of beating ai1d gassing u
(Sec the dress and amusements of the where sympathy is asked immediately verbal message. The sound;: acid songs
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for the victims, t~ith no fixing of facts.-- are.eflective. (I should specify
tipper class.) l?` o r . that it's all in Spanish tvitli subtitles.)
The first really Ar`goentinc litics in Btaf, keep ill- ones gila:d- tip' v.ell And soille roles the film is genuinely
Argentina. was Peronisnl. Pe.r n was as possible, one still is oveccortle by a beautiful. There's a -veil composed,
maligned abroad, principally by the sense of selfish,. cruel, exploitative d e in which an old
us, because his economic c'evelop- power in the hands of a few. As usual 0- R 1
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