Ok but everyone talking about the ending of La casa de los espíritus need to know about this song from that final scene because I haven't seen anyone mention it.
For people who didn't grew up listening latinamerican folk music, the song is "La Partida". It was composed by the chilean musician, Victor Jara, a pilar in the latinamerican music, and one of the most iconic writers of protest songs.
His music inspired thousands before, during and after the dictatorship. And he was one of the victims of it. He was arrested, tortured, his hands were broken and finally murdered, his body was found five days after the militar hit along with other important figures. Today the stadium were he was murdered has his name.
"La Partida" or if we translate it "The departing" is an instrumental song composed to represent a transition, the start of a journey, the first steps of a new path. Weather it is an exiled running away from their own country or a soul doing the transition from life to death.
That is the song that plays during that final scene, just as we departure from the story, and we watch Alba welcome the souls of the missing and the victims, walking the first steps of her new journey.
