This next Netflix release, the Spanish-language horror-comedyThe film, from director Pablo Larrain, tries to get us to laugh at the expense of a real-life murderous dictator — specifically, Augusto Pinochet, who’s presented here as a needy vampire who’s tired of eternal life and who also gets fussy when people suggest that he was a thief in life . Some insults are a bridge too far, I suppose.Jaime Vadell as El Conde.
So it’s settled. He decides to stop slurping on human blood … until his greedy children arrive, and he has another change of heart. “I have spent years imagining Pinochet as a vampire, as a being that never stops circulating through history, both in our imagination and nightmares,” Larrain said in a Netflix interview. “Vampires do not die, they do not disappear, nor do the crimes and thefts of a dictator who never faced true justice”.
Actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston act in a scene from HBO”s war mini-series “Band Of Brothers.” Image source: HBO via Getty ImagesThe Pacific
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