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Colombian Movies - Karrma (El peso de tus actos) & Buscando A Miguel

Has anyone here seen Karmma, El Peso de tus actos (2006)?

How about Buscando A Miguel (Aug. 2007)?

Karmma is supposedly based on a real-life kidnapping of a Colombian finca owner somewhere between Villavicencio and Bogota in the late 1990s. The twist is that the secuestro is unknowingly planned by the finca owner's own son, who is the leader of a kidnapping squad. The finca owner is subsequently delivered to FARC.

Pretty interesting story as it shows another aspect of what keeps FARC in business. Not the greatest movie, but worth seeing, esp. since it might give you the slightest peek into the lifes of this supposedly respected family.

For the cast: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485813/

Buscando a Miguel is a fictional story of a young politician in Medellin who, fortunately, gets drugged by scopamine, which gets him out of an assassination attempt by his wife and supposed friend/campaign manager.

Miguel is a young Colombian politician with a brilliant career who is now running for office. He's born from a wealthy family who sees the world from a position of privilege, but by a strange turn of fate he becomes a corpse without identity. Mistakenly taken for a John Doe, Miguel unexpectedly revives in the autopsy room to the horror of the doctor and his medical students. He eventually escapes but discovers that he has no memories; he doesn't know who he is. He searches for himself in an unknown city among people he doesn't know, living through fragmentary images of his past and dreams he can't understand.

In this sort of dream state, this utter unawareness of himself, Miguel is thrown into the harsh reality of the streets, a world he had seen before from his limousine's window as if it were a show, and survives thanks to the altruism of pariahs, precisely the kind of people he once despised and never really noticed - a group of pariahs, who will lend him a hand without asking for anything in return. He meets a trio of friendly corpse-hunters, a pious and promiscuous drag queen, and a bum who cooks delicious soups, and with them he experiences the warmth of friendship, even when he is no one, a stranger to himself. Because Miguel, the politician, doesn't exist anymore. In this new life, he discovers that there's another - an essential Miguel who struggles to find redemption.

Again, not the greatest movie, and has some truly shocking moments, but worth seeing it, if only to see the effects that scopamine can have on the unsuspecting. As well as the beautiful Monica Gomez, as Helena.

http://www.buscandoamiguel.com/index.htm

Figured I'd share with the board.

By toneloc24 on Sep 6, 2007, 08:54 in Friendly Talkzone.

Monpirri says on Sep 6, 2007, 13:58:

I saw it and I bought the DVD in Bogotá. Karmma El peso de su tu actos, it's a true story.
The oldest son, Santiago, the leader and a greedy man was betrayed by one his own boys and his father end up kidnapped. Juan Diego Valbuena escaped the guerrilla but he decided that he did not want to return to La Diana, la hacienda.

From the DVD case, "Hoy todavía se canta y se cuenta esta historia en las bellas noches llaneras. Aún se recuerda al capataz Guaco con su sabiduría y sus frases proféticas: "Cuando nacemos estamos destinados a morir...es el peso de tu actos".

Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008

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