「ミッシング」

　制作：１９８２年

　監督：コスタ＝ガヴラス

　ピノチェトのクーデタによって殺戮される人びとと、それを支援する合衆国が背景にある。

　チリで行方不明になった一人息子を探す父親の映画。息子は、チリのクーデタの背後に合衆国が関与していることをかぎつけていた。

　一人息子は、理想主義を唱え、また作家志望で貧しい生活をしていた。そういう生き方をしていれば、軍に拉致されて殺されてもしょうがない、という社会が正しいかどうかは疑問である。

　家族の行方を捜す父親と嫁、また、そうした活動をあしらう役人たちの姿が映画の核である。映画の山場は、父親（ジャック・レモン）と大使・海軍大佐との対決である。

　路上にたむろする兵隊と、横たわる屍体、銃声、屍体置き場（モルグ）にあふれかえる屍体の映像。

　台詞……

　"You Americans, you always assume we must do something before you can be arrested".

　U.S. Ambassador: We're not involved, Mr Horman. Our position has been completely neutral.

　Ed Horman: That is a bald face lie, sir. How can you say a thing like that when you have army colonels, you have naval engineers, they're all over Vina Del Mar!

　U.S. Ambassador: Please sit down. Look, it's very obvious you're harbouring some misconception regarding our role here.

　Ed Horman: What is your role here? Besides inducing a regime that murders thousands of human beings?

　U.S. Ambassador: Let's level with each other, sir. If you hadn't been personally involved in this unfortunate incident, you'd be sitting at home complacent and more or less oblivious to all of this. This mission is pledged to protect American interests, our interests.

　Ed Horman: Well, they're not mine.

　U.S. Ambassador: There are over three thousand US firms doing business down here. And those are American interests. In other words, your interests. I am concerned with the preservation of a way of life.

　Capt. Ray Tower, USN: And a damned good one.

　Ed Horman: [Staring out the window] Maybe that's why there's nobody out there.

　U.S. Ambassador: You can't have it both ways.

　Capt. Ray Tower, USN: I don't know what happened to your kid, Ed. But I understand he was a bit of a snoop. Poked his nose around in a lot of dangerous places where he didn't really belong. Now, suppose I went up to your town, New York, and I started messing around with the Mafia. I wind up dead in the East River. And my wife or my father complains to the police because they didn't protect me. They really wouldn't have much of a case, would they? You play with fire, you get burned.

ミッシング [DVD]