O Prefeito

The general idea (and its ambiguities) is nice and the movie is well filmed; therefore, this could have been a smart political/social dramatic comedy. However, director made very weird and inexplicable choices. The 70-minute feature movie should have been a short film with less than a 15-minute length! The film, that could fit better the story in a fast pace, happens (sometimes not only figuratively) in slow motion! Why to show so much time of rocks? Why to show a so long sequences of pictures instead of simply showing footage? I understand that there is a building site over there, but do spectators really need to listen the noise of the gyratory crusher for so long? Nizo Neto did not present the charisma and acting strength that was needed for his role either. Music score also does not fit most of the time (perhaps only in the second-to-last scene).