Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro
Still one of the best films about harsh reality faced by brazilian people living in the favelas -- and it's so sad to notice things remains 100% the same, if not seriously worse. Coutinho gives them the opportunity to speak out -- he also makes good and quick questions and his presence seems very familiar to everyone who has been interviewed, proving that the film crew must really have spent two weeks there --, and results seem really impressive. Like the woman talking with the military police, the poor homeless man in the beginning smiling and begging for help and two persons, one man and a woman, directly asking/demanding action from the filmmakers. Cinema not as a driving force of social change or transformation, but as a tool of communication and symbolic power. A definitive way to be seen and heard through time, right now and years later -- perhaps the only way.
Mini Review: Still one of the best films about harsh reality faced by brazilian people living in the favelas -- and it's so sad to notice things remains 100% the same, if not way worse. Coutinho gives them the opportunity to speak out -- he also makes good and quick questions and his presence seems very familiar to everyone who has been interviewed, proving that the film crew really must have spent two weeks there --, and results seem really impressive. Like the woman talking with the military police.