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Balibo

2009, Robert Connolly.

The sad story of East Timor, Indonesia invaded in 1975, very little is known, not as it should. Carryover from the same wiki page an essential piece:

" Timor was colonized in the early sixteenth century by the Portuguese is that the Dutch. After a long period of contention, the Netherlands and Portugal formally divided the island between 1859 and 1914, the Portuguese went to the east, the west to the Dutch. The island was conquered by the Japanese during the Second World War, and after the war returned to East Timor under the control of Portugal. On 28 November 1975, during the Carnation Revolution Portuguese, East Timor declared its independence. Nine days later, the Indonesian military took control, in subsequent years, the Indonesian military and the "death squads" anti-independence massacres of civilians. "

What wiki does not say is that the Indonesian invasion passed quietly and completely as a deliberate silence on the part of the international community. The United Nations in 1999 sent a force of" peacekeeping. "What were the reasons ? should some research, as usual, in political issues, exploitation of resources, military arena of influence, etc. ..., so that long-independence movement was wrongly accused of communism, there was no resistance at the base of ideologies whatsoever.

From Australia, in the 1975 and the first signs of invasion, left 5 young reporter (now called Balibo Five, see photo above) of two competing television channels, Channel 7 and Channel 9, to document everything. I have never returned. Disappeared without their home if they are concerned and with little fanfare in the same media that sent them on missions. In early December of 1975 the young Jose Ramos-Horta, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Fretilin government (name of the separatists who fought against the colonialists), goes to Australia to get in touch with a journalist, Roger East, and suggest they go to Timor as head of the government press. Roger will accept, with the intention to investigate the affair and the fate uncertain, the "five" ...

The film ends with the completion of an investigation of Roger fiction, as that now overt and large-scale Indonesian invasion, at once violent towards civilians indiscriminately. Latest scenes footage will show us return to his country (see photo above) after 24 years of exile, Ramos-Horta in 1996 has now received the Nobel Peace Prize. Unfortunately we also know that the problems still to East Timor are not finished, but at least more than a decade is no longer occupied by anyone.

entirely true, documented history that told. The result of subsequent investigations, and the story starts from Juliana, interviewed a woman (I guess) from a UN official. More than 8000 Timorese offered to narrate the story and in the sea of \u200b\u200batrocities described and verified there were approximately 183,000 deaths. A frightening figure in itself, and whereas in 1975 there were nearly 400,000 East Timorese people should be the word genocide is used.

Juliana speaks to the interviewer, We are in the mid-2000, essentially we see the beginning and end of the film. In another temporal plane, 30 years before we see Roger and Jose to move in a country in panic, not without difficulties, including disagreements, reach the point where they were last seen alive the reporter, called Balibo village 10 km from the border with Indonesia. In the third temporal level of only 3 weeks prior to the second, intentionally grainy style of filming at the time, we see the Balibo Five and their stories, as they are reconstructed by Roger during the trip.

A flashback then construction, not at all difficult to follow. As historical events and therefore known by the end, the film continues maintaining tension and doubt throughout its run, until the final. Marked by historical reconstruction, does not exceed in showing violence, appearing in only a few, but remarkable, action scenes. Very hard to denounce, with names, states and countries involved in what was an invasion covered by big interests. Dry, no-nonsense, practical and realistic, I liked it very much.

A nice roundup of frame there is fine. There's a sequence where the subtitles say it all, you'll know which one.

to shoot all those scenes ... Runaway first perhaps fared

good Anthony LaPaglia in the role of Roger East.
had to do, even with the Big Belly, a scene "Rambo" in person.

also good Oscar Isaac as Jose Ramos-Horta.
credible and even physically resembling

This review will be published also by the friends of Hideout I work with. Film is not yet available to us, a big thank you goes to the Italian Subs Addicted group that has produced excellent Italian subtitles.
download subtitles on ItalianSubs (link available in the very short)

The film also has its official website: www.balibo.com