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Who wrote this first comment?

posted 20 years ago by usventura
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Who wrote "A Tropical Opera of Social Chaos"?

I sincerely think you are living in another country! I live in Brasil too and I don't see that much of a desperate situation! The movie is excellent, but it exagerates on many things. The movie is an exageration in itself and it's wonderful! I can't believe you took it seriously. Of course it is criticizing the situation in Brasil, but through exageration.

"Redentor captures the ignorant faith present in every Brazilian"? What are you talking about?! You talk as if every Brazilian were ignorant and religious! You talk as if the situation in Brazil is umbearable, as if the country were about to explode! I'm from the middle class, and I don't think it is disappearing at all!

I think you are living in another country. Of course Brasil has problems, as in any other country, but those problems have solutions and the brazilian people are not all ignorant.

I hope you wrote this comment with the same spirit of exaggeration of the movie and that you weren't serious about it.

[–] world2you 19 years ago

If you are not satisfied with the review you are free to write your own.

[–] daniel-vasconcelosgomes 18 years ago

Although the film aims lyrism, it rather creates a fictional and twisted portrait of the Brazilian society, specially the one in Rio De Janeiro. However, it
touches issues that are usual for Brazilians like corruption, lack of perspectives for the poorest and pratical no concern coming from the government. The fact that everybody in the film tries hard to fool out someone else in the film is syntomatic and it forces us to think that despite the surreal concept of the film, most of the realism we face daily is not really sane compared to what one should face in a serious country. Not every Brazilian is ignorant or mean, but there's a point that can't be ignored: we are not moving forward, we are just standing still, and we love to fool our selves that, despite most troubles, we have the best people in this world. The film appeals strongly to make everybody dismissing most obvious "opium tools" like carnaval, soap operas, soccer, lottery and that old prophecy that says that Brazil is the country of the future.