Nostalgia de la Luz. In English, “Nostalgia for the Light”.
Looking back at the past for truth. Reminiscing at what had happened to get clues on what is bound. Learning from history to enlighten the future.
This is the film’s main premise as astronomers try to look at earth’s origins amidst the stars, as well as bereaved relatives of the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1970s Chile. In this film, astronomy and geology are set on a seemingly similar quest of discovering certain origins.
Most women would find themselves lucky during the harsh regime as they were less likely to become victims of Pinochet’s political persecution, unfortunately they were regarded in Chilean society as “lepers”, all for being witnesses of numerous events during the tumultuous regime, that Chileans refuse to acknowledge the truth about the happenings in the past, thanks to brainwashing and propaganda by the government.
And it’s also ironic and unfortunate how Chile’s history is accessible to the people from outside the nation, yet they themselves have no knowledge whatsoever of their history, let alone Pinochet’s dictatorship.
One might think why astronomy and geology are the subjects of this documentary. Both are branches of science that are, as mentioned earlier, in the search for the past, hence the nostalgia in the film’s title. Until the viewer gets to the end of the film when he/she realizes that, after the narrator states this scientific fact that the chemical element calcium is found in human bones as well as in stars and celestial objects, he/she realizes that those comparisons just make sense, despite being wildly different fields to which the experts share likewise wildly different stories. And studying the formation of celestial bodies as well as unearthing bodies buried beneath the ground during the dictatorship sheds light to their respective futures.
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