Chico Xavier

This movie is not just amazing because it get our attention since the first beginning... It is also amazing because it makes us think about what really matters in life.. It gives us a different perspective about different kinds of subjects and mainly because everything in the movie is real... comes after real events... Chico Xavier was not only a leader for a specific group of religious people, it is an example for all of us. I got my French friend to watch it and he is not spirist. He loved the movie, because it is not a movie for Brazilians, it is a movie for people who think deeper about life. Chico is the greatest recent example about how Christians should act. A man whose name can be love.

This film, expose the life of a really important person inside Brazil culture and knowledge.

Without him our planet probably would still even darker.

Chico made a lot of people to look to this subtle, but essencial part of life. And much of what he showed to people is until today not very well understood and experienced by us.

Here it is one more film to the must watch before die series.

Certanly the most perfect man already had lived here in Brazil, a high patent of morality and humanity ever had, your life is meaning in three words suffering forgiveness and love, your life spoke for himself, a phenomenon that the science can't explains, moved millions people to met him at Uberaba city where he had a humble house who he gave information through high spirit called Emmanuel from the other side of life bringing relief for those people who asking him news beyond the grave, he is my source of inspiration to be a better person, a man called love a true Jesus Christ's apostle!!!

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First watch: 2013 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-Blu-ray / Rating: 9

Chico Xavier is the latest flick following the Brazilian trend of biographical movies. Directed by the artistically inept soap-opera director Daniel Filho, Chico Xavier appears to be a film made exclusively to make big bucks out of an audience of religious viewers. And at this, it has been extremely successful. Instead of adopting a balanced approach to present the life of controversial spiritual figure Chico Xavier, the script and direction faithfully follow a biographical book that portrays the main character as a sort of martyr saint of spiritism. From the opening scene in a talk show in the 1970's it is quite clear that the spiritual powers and infinite benigness of Chico Xavier will overcome any difficulties and conquer even the most skeptic minds. The director resorts to a number of cheap devices to make the audience emotional and oblivious to the story's many flaws and inconsistencies. All the possible objections to the spiritual phenomena attributed to the so-called medium are quickly dismissed with some extraordinary event or an incredible display of generosity by Chico or his friends from the other side. That is exactly why the movie fails to elicit real drama and tension in anyone who appreciates a well-told human story. We can't really connect to someone who stoically endures great suffering and incomprehension without ever having a single burst of anger or revolt. Some scenes are almost comical in its zealousness to promote the sainthood of Chico, like the one in which his father takes him, as a young man, to a brothel. The cast includes many well-known Brazilian soap-opera actors who do not really make much of a difference to the overall sleepy mood of the entire work. Regardless of religious beliefs, it is impossible not to recognize the immense influence Chico Xavier has had on the Brazilian people. That is exactly why his story deserved better than this half-cooked piece of commercial cinema.

I was recommended this movie by a Brazilian friend, and when I watched it, I had actually never heard of the character portrayed in this movie. A man known as Chico Xavier who from a very young age hears voices and sees people who are dead and communicate with him. A bit like 6th sense, except that Chico Xavier is not scared of them, and the movie doesn't pretend to turn real facts into a drama.

So, the movie is very much about the medium's subject. It is not something that particularly interests me, although I have always thought that there could be something out there. Whatever your view on this matter, do not expect this movie to give you an explanation. What will happen is that you will either take this as a lot of crap or actually venerate this man if you didn't know him prior to watching the film.

Personally, I think Chico Xavier is a movie for Brazilian viewers mainly, because there, he was in fact a popular and well known person who appeared on television. And while there's no denying that it is always interesting to hear the story of someone you didn't know, the reality is that as a movie it was just acceptable for a Sunday afternoon.