Carandiru the book written by the infectologist Drauzio Varella made a huge success here in Brazil,but nobody knows much about Hector Babenco's adaptation.There a lot of rumors,but I believe that the material is so excelent that will be dificult to the director to destroy the story.Let's wish not a good movie but an excellent one.
shareI watched Carandiru last weekend. And I left the theater really sad, for in my opinion it is just good, not excellent. It lacks strength, it lacks reality. It sounds too staged at times, some scenes are vague and others are too ambitious, like the stairs sequence (in my opinion a very obscure message of redemption, which only a few brazilian intellectuals will enjoy) and the National Anthem, which is paradoxical and funny at the start, but then gets to be too long. I was disappointed with the whole, although it has some good moments. I hope you enjoy it better than I did, Marcello.
shareThe National Anthem scene is long because Brazil's national anthem as a long-ass one.
shareI just recently saw this movie, after the movie the director was present to answer questions from the audience. In writting and researching the film he worked alot with Drauzio Varella even posing as a medical student in the prison. In the end, the doctors spirt of being non judgemental to all patients is shown in the movie. It doesnt really try to show the people as either good or bad. Just human.
shareIn a world void of morality, which can be easily imaginable, it is easy to see the law of cause and effect in motion. What Babenco does is show the life of prisoners in a way that makes the viewer transcend ideals of right and wrong and look much further. It is true that we can always make choices, but choices do not come in neat positive/negative arrangements. Independently of whether or not one knows the consequences of one's actions, the law applies just the same. Babenco is not concerned in giving reasons for why such act of violence happened--he seems to be more concerned in having the viewer see that acts of violence, like acts of love, can also be random. I think that there is a general tendency for people to think that evil actions are not natural, but as violence becomes more and more an universal language, the oposite may be true. Yesterday, after a Carandiru preview, a viewer asked Babenco why was it that most Brazilian movies were about violence and poverty and he answered something to the extent that Americans have more reasons to make nice movies than Brasilians do. The reality of the Brazilian, be s/he from the Rocinha or from Alto leblon, is violent. In Brazil, violence is a domestic trait. In America's case, it happens elsewhere--ask anyone in Iraq.
shareThe funny thing is all the characters were in prison because of a woman.
For Example, Pexeira, because a woman paid him to kill her husband. Majestade because of Roseneira(?), Deusdete bc his sister, The 2 guys that robbed money-transports bc of their wives, and so on...
a hidden Misoginistic message ?
dunno, :)
and I Really Enjoyed the movie
and no, im not a misogistic b*stard
As Brazilian I can only tell you this - this country sucks ass.
Never come here. The people are impolite, dumb and our culture isn't all that great.
Leave, then. Stop being a whiny *beep* already. This lame country sucks, indeed, but your dull blabbery turns you into just another dumb, impolite and undercultured loser who has nobody else to share his frustrations with. Get over it.
shareWell, this just goes to show you that people are different. I'm an American living in Rio de Janeiro...I ADORE it and would never move back to the U.S.! I think the culture here is just fantastic, the people are friendly and warm and intelligent, overall. Not that the U.S. is bad, or Americans are bad, or anyplace is "bad," for that matter...it's really all just a question of where you feel at home.
Oh, and I really loved "Carandiru" - saw the movie and read the book, and thought both were excellent.