diewgong Reviews

Cinderela Baiana (1998)

"To don't melt, to don't melt"

[9/10 · 11 July 2016]

Magnificent natural performances mark the aesthetics of Carla Perez debut in movie theaters, a popular Brazilian dancer who built her career by fighting demagogic campaigns and releasing wild animals. Carla Perez (Carla Perez) is a girl that was born in a rural inland desert area, and grew up so obsessed with dancing she keeps jumping to no music while her mom works when she's a kid, she saw her mom die after a mean kid break her hoe on the ground (the movie never explains but probably those two things aren't related)

While she's ingenious enough to don't know what is a "protagonist", she's a gifted talented performer, although it's a little bit hard to know the difference between her and the other dancers, she's able to buy an acarajé and dance at the same time, making a lot of people go to the food stand and buy an acarajé too, saving a woman's business (she questions: "maybe she's the angel that came up to change my life??")

This draw the attention of the megalomaniac manager Pierre (Perry Salles) that want to turn her into the "biggest dancer in the world" and was played by Perry Salles with such intensity that he throw a melon upwards and yells "we found her! we found her!" after search Carla in Salvador streets with binoculars.

But Carla starts to discover Perry is a terrible man and not only avoid to be managed by him, but also end up the movie dressed as Jeanie from "I dreamed a Jeannie", intervents a lot of kids working with hoes in a pavemented road (probably they was smoothing the cement or searching wire earthworms), makes a beautiful speech about how all the kids deserves protection, food, love and peace, and closes the movie with a beautiful and fun musical number

Neighbors (I) (2014)

I tought I was going to see "A Serbian Film"

[10/10 · 26 June 2014]

My only disappointment is that the movie isn't even that shocking as people complains here on IMDb, maybe it's the most horrible thing someone accustomed with "High School Musical" ever saw, but it's not actually a big deal. The movie is not great like Superbad is (even if I laughed enough), but have some highligths and have some really funny moments. The characters was very well written, I loved Rose Byrne like I never loved her before, she's just hysterical doing a character that is not so usual in comedies like this, the wife of the funny guy can be funny and can be so irresponsible as the husband is, she really have to happens in Hollywood. Another amazing performance comes from Zac, that isn't equally funny, but is totally convincing as a guy that is evil and sweet at the same time, he never sounds incoherent and found the perfect balance between those two sides. Dave Franco have some problems in the development of his character (screenplay problem), but he have an amazing timing to compensate that, I like a lot how his character have some homoerotic tendencies also. Seth Rogen is always Seth Rogen, but I didn't hate him, he's usually a sweet and funny guy. Don't get the people negativity, it's pretty obvious that most of those bad reviews are fake (there's a review that complains about people putting fireworks on the ass, well this only happens on the trailer, but don't actually happenson the movie) It's not great but it's funny enough to watch and don't get you bored or annoyed