Tuesday 21 July 2015

Explanation of scene in the Official Story (La historia oficial)

In the movie, when Alicia goes to Roberto's workplace to see him, there is a man who's nervous and very impatient about seeing Andrada. He's afraid of being put in jail, but Roberto and his co-workers dismiss his worries "over a silly summons by a judge."



They say they will take him to see Andrada, but after they take him off camera for a little while, Roberto asks "What's wrong?" and we see the co-worker half-dragging the man into a room. The co-worker says everything's fine and tells them to go catch their flight, then shuts the door.



After a bit, when they are getting in the elevator, Alicia sees someone open the door to the room and walk out, and it seems like the co-worker is straightening the man's collar or something while he's semi-conscious. We don't see anything else, however, and it cuts to them driving to the airport.



What was he doing to the man? And what are we supposed to infer from that?



Here's a screenshot:



screenshot of the scene

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