Teodorico, o Imperador do Sertão

So revealing of how things work in small-town Brazil, where landowners genuinely act like emperors, controlling absolutely everything they can about poor people's lives. There is simply no separation between politics and economy, no justice system or state control. Coutinho knows that sometimes the best way to understand such a complex state of things is to let it show itself with no filters, as we watch Theodorico joyfully say one absurdity after another, totally relaxed in front of the camera, treated by him as yet another power instrument -- he refers to workers as slaves, admits he stopped helping families to pay for kids' education because they didn't return to the city (to work for him, of course), defends polygamy and socialism (lol). You don't even get to live in his town if you don't vote, and he will personally register you. Brazil is really the country of gentle sadism and brutality -- a social violence made official by the ones who perpetuate them, the politicians.