Hello darkness, my old friend… I’ve come to talk with you again…
Because a vision softly creeping… Left its seeds while I was sleeping…
And the vision that was planted in my brain.. Still remains..
Within the sound of silence
Words from Simon & Garfunkel‘s evergreen classic song brilliantly fits in as an ode to the heart wrenching Uruguayan film A twelve year night. No wonder it does get its deserving place in the film too. Director Alvaro Brenchner chooses to tell the story of the unbelievably horrific experience that three political prisoners José Mujica, Mauricio Rosencof and Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro go through during their twelve year long solitary confinement across multiple prisons in the most inhuman conditions under the military dictatorship regime in Uruguay.
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