Martin McDonagh finally has had his opus magnum. Brilliant cast of Malkovich, Buscemi and Sam Rockwell cleverly supports his directing concept.
There were several complaints about the director's plot. First, MMD used a disparaged conspiracy theory of CIA participation in Kennedy's assassination. Second, Malkovich's monologue admonishing Monica to kill every soldier in her sight smacks of "wokeeism".
If McDonagh took less well known episode of targeted assassination, he would need a long explanation to a general public. Probably, in the form of the longread after the movie. Without Malkovich's passionate monologue, Monica's instant resolve to kill her "remorseful" traitor friend by riding her over could be psychologically unmotivated.
Steve Buscemi in his interview was overtly deferent to the CIA coup plotters and assassins. They were the "good guys". If one would poll the then American public about the Chilean coup, less than 30% would say that it was a crime against humanity, and 70+ % -- that it was all done to stop the world Communism. Only Kissinger and his crew -- the masterminds of the installation of Pinochet and must bloodier gang of generals in Argentina -- probably, had no illusions that Alliende, a lifetime member of a masonic lodge was a Communist. This was his aversion to the existence of successful experience of European-style Social Democracy in Latin America, which motivated the coup.
Pinochet was a pretty successful military dictator, by the special meager standards his ilk is judged, and many Chileans remember him fondly. This cannot be said about his contemporary Brazilian and Argentinean colleagues. Especially the latter were bloodthirsty thugs with little ability and no social policies outside of kidnapping, rape and murder.
