Review of The Clan

The Clan (2015)
9/10
When the right wing is also a family business
5 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Arquimedes Puccio is an agent of the Argentine secret services that organize and practice political repression. He is a member of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, the infamous Triple A. This gives him good protection and sufficient freedom of initiative. Taking advantage of the political situation, he organizes kidnappings involving the whole family in this criminal activity. The son Alexander, promising rugby team and the other son Maguilla who after fleeing to New Zealand returns home animated by a renewed spirit, the wife who prepares food for the kidnapped and takes advantage of the silent complicity of her two daughters and two shady characters doing the dirtiest work. Their targets are wealthy people who are able to pay large sums for the ransom. The payment, however, does not prevent the death of the abductees. The Puccios will be captured by the police and the head of the family, the true mind of the organization, will deny any responsibility until death.

Trapero, who by adhering to the facts, brings this story into the political climate of those years shows that it is the natural fruit of the protection enjoyed by the characters who were part of the dark apparatuses of power. There is no doubt that the Puccos were able to act undisturbed thanks to the numerous covers they enjoyed.
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