A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes

This documentary shows how media manipulates the public opinion through what we now call fake new. Victor Braga wrote an extraordinary didactic script. It's one of those documentaries that succeed to point it out ugly sides of power and society with elegance.

He himself is the narrador. His narrative is clean, sharp, ironic, delightful. His regional accent adds an extra charm as he comes from the most lucid region of Brazil, NE. NE didn't fall into any fake new whatsoever about Lula for instance and gave the most votes against fascism at our President election 2022.

Fundamental movie to understand why Brazil has such a fragile democracy.

Although the coup d'état is an event that took place six years ago, its effects are still deeply felt by Brazilian democracy. However, the very narrative about the event is still a subject of hermeneutical dispute in the Brazilian public sphere and this prevents the correct diagnosis of its institutional consequences. Just as the memory of the military dictatorship's crimes is very little remembered or discussed, which allows its ills to return as unexorcised ghosts, most of Brazilian society does not even realize that it lost an important part of its own sovereignty with a coup that overthrew the former President Dilma Rousseff. As the news outlets and the justice system were associated in this campaign of institutional destabilization, as they were in the 1964 coup, they will hardly recognize the crime even with all their fingerprints on the scene. That's why the film by Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes plays a role not only as a work of creation, but also as a historical document for the country's memory.

For many of us here in the West, this film will serve as a strong document about what occurs Brazil. And with the recent election of Lula, the film is even more necessary, as it allows the viewers to engage with the local citizens, eyeing their interests in a style that is taut, intelligent, and deeply lyrical. Best of all, the film boasts a sultry vocal interpolation from co-director Victor Fraga, who smoulders through scene after scene to come up with an engaging narrative style that recalls the voiceovers of Terry Wogan. Only time will tell if this veers beyond the festival circuit, but it's definitely deserving of a wide viewership.

A documentary that denounces what the TV Globo machine can destroy in its eagerness to control the course of the country. One of the most important documentaries in the recent history of Brazil.

It is a film that reflects the moment we live in, that of the power of certain media outlets where democratic values are corrupted and destroyed. And, that factory of coups called Globo that sought to defend the dark interests of the "elite".

This documentary allows us to reflect on how the backstage of power works to manipulate, control and change the course of history.

Interviews with great personalities from the recent history of Brazil, people who have lived through other coups and their perspectives on this assault on Brazilian democracy. A must see.

A must-see film to understand Brazilian society and its contradictions. The film is engaging and depicts, with impressive accuracy, the dangerous dark clouds of fascism coming not only in Brazil but all over the world.

Directors Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes have done a great job exposing the media's influence on political upheaval in Brazil. Firstly they focus on the role of TV Globo, the most important TV channel in Brazil, owned by the late media mogul Roberto Marinho and his family, playing in supporting and influencing the coup d'état of 1964 that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, with the backing of the United States government. They expand this disturbing narrative to encompass the more recent coup d'état which led to the overthrow of Lula's political successor Dilma Rouseff in 2006.