We all know the answer: public persuasion, court of public opinion, organization and the next election is the only fix. This question you keep asking doesn’t inform nor lead to new insights for your viewers.

11) Mixed reviews, but most reviewers missed the importance of the current US context and “the warning” to all of what happens when nations succumb to the dictates and need for control by the few. Here’s the review from Matt Zoller Seitz: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

10) Likely available at your library: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534204...

9) The movie also brilliantly references the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo who organized in 1977 to hold the leaders to account in order to locate or find the truth as to what happened to their family members. The relentless organization and constant presence, often at great cost, worked and is ongoing.

8) The movie lightly references the horrible actions of outside governments including Henry Kissinger’s extra-governmental propping up of the dictatorship that he continued after his administration left office until he was forcibly removed. Kissinger did “helped” with the over 30,000 disappeared.

7) Any hope of slowing the pain and suffering to come from the wrecking of our highly interconnected “systems” of public health, medical care, education/research, economy and social fabric and the hand over of most all wealth and decision making to the very lesser “few” requires the many to act now.

6) For me, the movie served as a reminder that we in the US are in the proverbial pot of boiling water with little time left and must gather together to do what all that is needed to preserve our government and freedoms, constitution and rule of law.

5) From the poem: “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you- Ye are many-they are few.”

4) The teacher ends up teaching his class Percy Shelly’s “the Masque of Anarchy,” a poem I had read in college, but had completely forgotten and failed to pay attention to when it resurfaced during Tiananmen Square.

3) The actor who plays the teacher accidentally adopts a penguin after rescuing him from an off-shore oil spill on a side trip to Uruguay. He takes “Juan Salvador” back to the boarding school to surprisingly delightful effects on the students and their learning community.

2) So many of the elements of everyday effects on town’s people/school employees caused by the dictatorship’s relentless need for control are the same as what we’ve seen with Trump and his appointees since he began his second term in January with the help of his owners and his un-American enablers.