Fascinating script on social differences and wrong-doings in Brazil that has percolated over decades to the present generations. Director scriptwriter Filho uses a street in an upmarket area of Recife city, in Brazil, as an allegory/symbol of inherent anger towards wrongs done by the rich in the past towards the poorer sections, some who were slaves in the sugar plantations and sugar mills. What is creditable is the simmering violence is never shown but suggested obliquely by sounds and dreams. in one sequence the water in the waterfall where three persons are enjoying turn to blood (not real but symbolically). What interested me most was that the film was partly/indirectly financed by the state-owned oil company Petrobras (stated in the opening credits, but not on the IMDB list of producers). Way to go for industrial houses!
Has the new generation got any better? Not if you see the reaction of some characters in the film towards animals and towards young waifs, less privileged than themselves
Has the new generation got any better? Not if you see the reaction of some characters in the film towards animals and towards young waifs, less privileged than themselves