Overall, I think the movie is worth watching since it's an amazing story. But the "Hollywood" factor is a little too much "Hollywood". I understand that Antonio Banderas is not ex-president Sebastian Piñera's biggest fan, as they are publicly from different political sides. And I understand that it's a movie and that Piñera is just a character, not real-life Piñera, and that they wanted a cold president, whose biggest concern was the implications that meant for chile's international image if the miners were not rescued. After all, it's Hollywood. But the real story is better. I just wish that they had sticked to it.
The whole intelligence that was involved in the rescue of the miners is not really shown in the movie. Throughout the movie, Golborne is portrayed as the big man. He was very important, but in the real story is much more impressive, worth telling and honestly realistic. Piñera, who is know for being a brilliant man, had a lot more to do with it, he acted fast as asked for help from other countries as soon as he heard the news because he remembered a story of a Russian submarine that had failed under the ocean and the whole crew died because they were not rescued at time. That was all over the news at the time and we all thought he was crazy, not way they could find the miners alive. The engineers and Piñera were the brains behind the operation, and that story I believe is not that well represented in the movie, and is so interesting. How these people managed to do it, something that was impossible. I'm proud to be Chilean and the quality of the engineers we have here. I mean, we just had a 8.4 earthquake and there was very little damage. The earthquake was intense, so intense, I lived it, but the real reason why little damage happened is because of our engineers, and how they have designed our houses, buildings, urban structure, everything, in order to survive earthquakes. In 2010, during an 8.8 earthquake there were many deaths, but the main reason that happened was because people were not evacuated at time and a huge tsunami took many lives.
I might sound like a Piñera fan- i'm not, I just acknowledge his work. I'm not a political person, but I follow the news in my country. The newspapers that are pro- government, and the other ones too. I'm not really biased. So, another thing that I thing should have been in the movie is how the first lady, Cecilia Morel, acted and what a huge support she was for the families and in the camp. She has always been perceived as the most lovely and caring person, even from people that deeply dislike his husband. She was very important for the families. The day her father died, they found the miners. And minutes before he died, he told Piñera that the miners were alive and that he should go back to Copiapó and help them. So, he went to Copiapó when his father-in-law died, the day they found the miners. That was impressive and unique, the real story. Piñera and his wife were at the camp almost the whole time.
There is a lot of interesting elements that were left out in the movie. A lot of intelligence and unique things that happened. The story itself is so impressive and unbelievable that they didn't need had to change it. And, as I said before, showing the intelligence and how fast they acted would make the movie more realistic, too.
