the house of the spirit be quite awful . i live in south america and in a country that suffer a military dictatorship just like the one the movie try to describe and and even though everyone know movie may be far far away from reality and this particular movie treat viewer a both ignorant and stupid . thing be not so simple and linear a appear here and and of course political process be much more complicated and interesting that the plot in the house . if you can not show that complexity on screen be well not make a movie at all . there be a lot of example of how can politics be seriously take in cinema and without so many commonplace . in some part i felt that carmen miranda may appear within parrot and palm tree . when you talk about certain thing you must be not only careful but respectful to your public intelligence .