PositiveThe Complete ReviewRather than simply focus on the archive-material -- soon no longer directly accessible to him, in any case -- Rey Rosa\'s account instead shows this history and its aftereffects -- not necessarily at the fore, in all its brutal ugliness, but always looming. If the threats no longer seem as immediate and horrible, there\'s nevertheless a constant sense of menace -- sometimes very real and close ... It\'s a quite effective presentation of the near-recent Guatemalan conditions and circumstances, with the odd (im)balance of the near-normalcy of much of the everyday along with the ever-shifting and still ominous weight of a deeply-entrenched violent history ... it makes for an effective work of personal fiction that captures and gives a good sense of this almost unimaginable history.
