​Nostalgia for the light is a political documentary about the people killed, during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, and their missing bodies. The way the film maker uses is an analogy of characteristic  search back and  through time from  astronomy, archeology and specifically the relatives of the murdered in the Atacama dessert. ​

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In my perspective a remarkable feature of the movie is the imagery used to illustrate both astronomy (beautiful photographs and videos from the space telescopes in the dessert) and the impressive footage on the political prisoners recovered bodies (although at some point its use became a little bit morbid for my taste). ​

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The main point I could extract from the movie was the challenge that represents to dive into the infinity of space and the trickiness of the human history to find out answers to questions that deserve the effort to be explored (value place subjectively). Although I like this point and I share the repugnance for totalitarian regimes I think the documentary was trying to convey a critic to an specific regimen whitout. ​

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