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| UWM |
| Good movie. After watching it in Portugese with subtitles you can pick up on a good number of vulgarities :) |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Yeah, I think it's a really great movie.
Makes you see the very human side of people you would normally consider scum.
It's also presented in a very interesting way - almost like a book being read out to you in chapters.
I still have a hard time bearing with that "one" scene...those who have seen it know what I'm talking about. "Hand or foot?" :( |
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| Geoff |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Yeah, I think it's a really great movie.
Makes you see the very human side of people you would normally consider scum.
It's also presented in a very interesting way - almost like a book being read out to you in chapters.
I still have a hard time bearing with that "one" scene...those who have seen it know what I'm talking about. "Hand or foot?" :( |
man i loved that movie, one of the best i've seen
yea that one scene was pretty disturbing :nervous: |
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| infinity HiGH |
i've been hearing really good things about this movie
i gotta check it out |
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| Protege |
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoff
man i loved that movie, one of the best i've seen
yea that one scene was pretty disturbing :nervous: |
Yeah I couldnt imagine going through that kind of ordeal at such a young age, but that was the way things were. Anyways, I loved this movie, one of the best Ive seen in revent years |
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| Lira |
No, no one of us have ever seen this bloody film and I've never ranted about the ing cunts behind it before. In fact, there aren't 61 threads that mention this ing film, let alone have this thread and this other thread been exclusively dedicated to this worthless comercial piece of pretentious turd. Bloody wankers who exploit others' misery.
Hell, if there's something that does manage to perfectly get on my ing , that would be this ing film. Please, next time, .
And no, I didn't say ing ing enough times! |
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| dj_bas |
| its an awesome movie. one of my favorite things about it is the music :) |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Wow, struck a nerve, Lira?
It's funny how when other people talk about your country, who don't even live there, seem to think that they know everything about it because they've trusted in what others have told them. Understanding is flawed. |
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| Subey |
| The movie is a joke compared to Bus 174 |
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| Lira |
You know, I have a hard time trying to understand what can someone even dare to say it is a good film. The director turned one of the saddest realities of Brazilian poverty and into a banal pop-corn film. He made a lot of profit from the film and, during these three years, the greedy cunt never engaged on any sort of solution to help. Meanwhile, the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro are becoming the hell on earth, and the news are hardly shocking anymore. We've seen it all on the telly. It's become a parallel reality, ordinary, and we then need something stronger to shock us. What for?
First of all, the problem is not new. The slams of Rio de Janeiro have been around for quite a while. Poverty is nothing new, neither in Brazil nor in developed countries. Yet the "exotic sight" of a slam from Rio de Janeiro makes it all far from us (except you do live in Rio). Rio is a charming place, after all, everything a gringo wants to see. Beaches, carnival and the poverty we like to export so we can show we're just the remains of a ruined colony. While the first Americans were looking for a new place to live, the Portuguese just wanted to get whatever they could find here and return to Europe. Then there was the slavery and, as soon as England realised they needed more consumers, they fought for freedom (as if), and there we were - millions of former slaves, in a place where people could hardly live on their own. Obviously, it's not that simple, but this is the main colour of the portrait. The film never ever mentions whatever happened before the XX century. The slam was "just there", as the government wanted to "clean" Rio de Janeiro.
Then it just shows all that cruelty as if it were something that we had never heard of. Instead, it just makes "art" out of the most depressing acts human beings can engage on, and thus having us being used to that. Pot-heads will still smoke their bloody ganja, deluding themselves, as if those behind the sales aren't the ones who might kidnap their beloved ones. The film isn't there to change anything. It's not a warning. It's just an attempt of making poverty look as magical as Mickey Mouse. And guess what: it is not.
What really saddens me though is that this is all my country exports. Countless foreigners came here and said "WTF!? Where are the slams and the jungle?". If it weren't so late, I'd keep talking, but any word would be just pointless, pretty much like the film. But, unlike that horror show, this is not freaky. This is an average person just ranting so tomorrow I can wake up and try to do something other than shocking people.
If someone can convince me of the contrary, I'm willing to read. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subey
The movie is a joke compared to Bus 174 |
What the !? What we saw on TV wasn't enough? They had to make money out of this too.
ing greedy cunts. |
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