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And less pressed for time today, hence ...
... why you should see this movie:
- This movie’s good.
- Really, really good.
- No, really.
Yes. Really.
Rare is the film in today’s climate which doesn’t take the easier available routes to target the lowest common denominators. Carandiru is one such film.
The perversion of the movie is ingenious, and yet so simple. A humanization of the crooks, the criminals, murderers, robbers, and drug dealers & users. No simplistic good and bad dichotomy is employed within the movie – that is, not until much later – when accounting for, and recounting the reasons why these people have been transplanted to the confined space that was Carandiru; and real confined it was too: built for 3500, used by up to 7000 in 1992…
Babenco and the other filmmakers have finalized the proceedings so that in the 2½ hours duration, the impression of a sensitive, poetic pace, which unfailingly showers everyone involved with affection is the dominant theme, despite the eventual horrendous fate of 111 prisoners.
(& again, I wonder why the Brazilian members haven't reported this to us, in the first place) |
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