Los Colonos/The Settlers shows the atrocities committed in Chile against Indians, racism, classism and a government that in reality does not really aim to settle the issue but is also concerned with aesthetics rather than the problem real and concrete in itself, therefore a story of how the Chilean state was born from blood, from the wrongs committed, from the classism of the landowners and of a government that does not really address the issue.
The film has the visual power that a western requires excellent scenarios, many medium-long shots constructed very well, photography that gives strength to the natural settings with the colors of the earth in prominence, careful and notable staging and therefore very careful direction by Felipe Galvez Haberle capable of giving visual energy , I breathe the story as if it were in a classic western.
Menendez, landowner, lands obtained by expropriating and killing the Indians, still wants to chase them away so he tasks MacLennan, a British soldier, Bill, an American mercenary and Segundo, a quest the last one wanted by MacLennan for his skills with the rifle, to go ahead and protect the lands.
The journey of the three progresses between racist jokes and exterminations, interesting as Haberle frames MacLennan and Bill with a fixed camera shooting at the Indians while for Segundo opts for the handheld camera showing his uncertainty, he is against such an operation as will also be demonstrated in the rape sequence.

The third act does not opt ​​for a climax of atrocity, it is shown through a government official, as the Chilean government on the surface seems to want to protect the Indians and non-whites, like Segundo, but only on the surface as in reality it does not aim in the slightest to take away the lands or to hinder Menendez, eloquent as in the end, in the scene of the photograph, the official he takes care of the aesthetics, the costumes, the smiles, in short the setting of the shot but Segundo's wife doesn't want to lend herself, she doesn't want to laugh because in fact there is nothing to laugh about the whole situation and ends with the foreground.

Message that arrives, perhaps I could have given more strength to the story by showing certain events such as the banquet and the poisoning of the Indians rather than just having them narrate, however, for what the film narrates the ending with the photography scene is very clear.