The juxtaposition of Augusto's current fight with Alzheimer's and his career as a television journalist during the Pinochet regime works beautifully. For an international audience, Maite Alberti is able to create a succinct Chilean story summarizing the public reaction to Pinochet, and creating a time-capsule of the country during the 70s and 80s. At the same time, Alberti provides context of Augusto's life and career to show what an impact he's made in his community and to the people around him.
Augusto's Alzheimer's, meanwhile, makes him something of a perfect audience surrogate, as he takes the opportunity to re-learn and re-experience the most important times of his life. Of course, Alzheimer's isn't all cute reminiscence (it probably shouldn't be seen as even mostly cute reminiscence), and Alberti doesn't shy away from showing Augusto on his bad days as well. The effect on Augusto's partner Pauli is devastating.

Overall a fantastic documentary. I have so many thoughts on this one, but I can't really form coherent sentences anymore. Beautiful.