I know that America wasn't really on good terms with Chile because of Soviet Relations, but I'm not sure if they closed the Embassy down. But, what about the UK embassy. I don't get why the trusted the Germans to take all of their information to.
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Uhmmmm.. because they were Germans?! Both Lena and Daniel (although most of the people in Colonia Dignidad also). I don't know if you caught that, but as he is being tortured, Daniel says in Spanish "soy aleman!" which means "I'm German", Lena is working for Lufthansa (a German airline).. plus they have German names..
shareOh!! I thought they were British
shareIt was easy to think that, because they were both speaking in an English accent.
My guess is that they let the actors speak in an English accent because that was natural and easy for Emma Watson, and the German accent would have been difficult to pull off. Nothing worse in a movie than a bad accent that is supposed to be a native tongue accent...
It never once occurred to me that they were German.
shareBut... did you actually watch the movie? It's said a lot of times!
shareI guess I was thrown off by their British accents. I thought the Germans were the ones who had the cult, not Emma Watson and her boyfriend.
shareYeah some people don't speak Spanish and had to kind of intuit what was being said by the few broken words we know. All nationalities of the world aren't commonly known. They never said so in English. The Lufthansa thing should have tipped me off but I haven't been back to Europe in a while so kind of missed it. Might have worked better if they used German actor/actress without as much name power.
shareThere were no subtitles for the lines in Spanish?
How much % the movie is in Spanish? (I've watched it fully dubbed, so I don't know).
Bruhl is a German actor and assumed he was playing German in the film due to goo his accent and since they repeatedly said it. Watson otoh, I thought was English.
shareOnly Watson was speaking in an English accent. Bruhl had and has a German accent.
shareUhmmmm.. because they were Germans?!
You're kind of harsh. This movie sucked so bad that it wasn't as evident as it should have been. The nationality of the characters should have been easily apparent, but with the female having a distinct British accent, it wasn't. Had the Chileans spoke only Spanish and the Germans spoke German it would have been far more effective. Less wooden acting would have helped too.
shareAnd did they go to the democratic or federal germany embassy?
shareI know that America wasn't really on good terms with Chile because of Soviet Relations
And did they go to the democratic or federal germany embassy?
More extreme measures. US embassy requires Americans to tell them or state department their travel plans if they are traveling to dangerous country. If Americans got into trouble like in this film and they have armed guard from the time they entered the embassy to until they are safely on the plane.
shareSimple answer is that they would have been treated pretty badly. Because the U.S. was friendly with Pinochet, Daniel and Lena would have been treated like criminals and handed back over to Colonia Dignidad.
Also, they would have been turned away from the American embassy because neither of them was American.
He meant as Germans to the American Embassy. Even as Americans they would have had major issues because of the pictures and what they knew. The US isn't as saintly as you would like to believe.
shareI know that America wasn't really on good terms with Chile because of Soviet Relations
Sorry, never studied US and Chile's history. You are obviously a Chilean so you are intact about that field of history.
And not really sure why America is in quotation marks because America and USA are pretty much the same term, not really much to assume there.
Just an FYI, to the rest of the world (especially Spanish-speaking countries), "America" means fron Alaska to the Patagonia, i.e. the entire continent.
It is just that the United States OF America approriated the term to refer to itself and its people. It is equivalent to Nigeria wanting to call themselves "Africa" when they are clearly NOT the entire continent.
Be polite. There is no need to talk to people that way.
shareFunny how people living in the US think that America is the same term. Most of the countries I have been to say the States.
shareAmerica supported the coup, because the other side were communist.
They would have turned them back over to the military/Colony
They would need new passports to leave the country and you usually get those from the embassy of the country of your birth, in their case was Germany unfortunately.
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