When a film is almost too hard to watch
[...] what can we say about a movie such as “Finding Oscar,” a documentary that deserves to be seen, that deals with an important subject, that is intelligently and conscientiously made, and yet will give no pleasure to those who watch it?
In a small village called Dos Erres, government troops came in and killed everybody — men, women, little children, babies.
At one point in the film, the surviving relatives go in and start excavating the well where the bodies were dumped.
For the cameras, a bag of male bones is dumped onto the ground, then female bones, and then child bones.
The authorities investigating the massacre needed his DNA.
If his DNA matched the bones of any of the victims, it would, in effect, identify the dead family and make it easier to prosecute the murders.
[...] this is a worthy film, with lots of human moments, such as when the father and son reunite after many years apart.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic.