Critical Moviegoers

Dear readers,

I am here writing to all of you who love to watch movies. As we all do in this blog. Here I intend to make you realize the importance of our own cinema industry.

I think that we are always complaining that Chilean movies are redundant in their thematic. Indeed, we are really good when it comes to complaints, not so good when it comes to real support. Honestly, Chilean movies have been improving over the years, and it is already a good time for us to compensate that improvement. It must be a little annoying to see how popular a foreign movie becomes in just a week, when you are a filmmaker that does not receive that kind of attention from your own people.

We have to give some recognition to the people behind the scenes of the movies that are made here. There have been several initiatives to make the industry grow, and yet we do not seem to take them seriously. Instead, there you are going to the movies that are being the focus of attention, not because of a good plot, but because the most famous actors are in it.

I have already presented my reasons. You are now the one who has to decide the next time you go to the movies. Hopefully, you will take this into account. I am really interested in watching good movies as I am sure you all are. All we have to do is help a little in order to allow them to make a do job.

Yours sincerely,
Benjamín Valenzuela, a movie lover.