Review: Last Chapter – Goodbye Nicaragua

Film Reviews Mon, 17 Oct 2011 Written by Rasha
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Last Chapter – Goodbye Nicaragua (Picture: ADFF).

Last Chapter – Goodbye Nicaragua is a powerful and gut wrenching documentary film, from Swedish journalist and filmmaker – Peter Torbiornsson. Read below for triplew.me’s review of the film…

Swedish filmmaker Peter Torbiornsson opens an old wound with the making of this documentary. As one of the lucky survivors of the 1984 La Penca bombing, Torbiornsson has been concealing a secret for a quarter of a decade - A secret which has been eating away at his conscience for all these years, leading to the making of this movie.

During the revolutionary years in Nicaragua, lines were blurry and facts were muddy. As Torbiornsson puts it, “no one was entirely good as no one was entirely bad”. What carried the revolution through though, was its set of humane and just ideals and morals. These Ideals were long foregone when the revolutionaries took power and ruled the country.

In Peter Torbiornsson Last Chapter – he embarks on a trip to Nicaragua – a place he’s avoided for so many years – to find the truth about what really happened in La Penca.

As Peter digs deeper inot his search, we are presented with stories of survivors and impoverished Nicaraguans – unearthing the ugly face of the so-called revolution.

Goodbye Nicaragua is a courageous film which goes back into the corners of a dark history to hopefully emerge in a more luminous reality.

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Documentary

DIRECTED BY

Peter Torbiörnsson

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Editor review

Amazing insight to a story not often told.

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 4.0
Reviewed by triplew.me
October 17, 2011
 
Last updated: October 17, 2011
Revoutions, blurry lines and secrets - this has all the subtefuge of a spy novel, but is very much a real life tale, and one that has haunted the protaganist all this time. This is a well told story of a very real life and Torbiörnsson tells a good story.
 
 

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