A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes

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 must-see movie, that reveals how devilishly a government was overthrown in Brazil.

An unmissable film, which reveals how diabolically the government was overthrown in Brazil. With a clear, direct dialogue that is alarming because it unmasks important institutions and public figures. Also, gains strength with a bias of standing applause!

With a realistic approach and with a fundamental guideline for the understanding of history, political events and their impacts and consequences on the lives of many people. A film that marks a story of corruption and revels relentlessly never to happen again: as a cry for help against brainwashing!

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 That's why the film by Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes plays a role not only as a work of creation, but also as a historical document for the country's memory.

Really enjoyed watching this movie. Very important! And could not come at greater poignant time. I was unaware of Brazils political structures and fundamental corruption caused by the right wing, almost fascist ideology of Bolsanaro. As I write this, even now similar scenarios of Trump throwing his toys out of the pram when America finally voted against him are line to Bolsanario.. One could say Trump is a saint in comparison.. Well, at least Lula is back! Hope for the Brazilian population that peace can be restored, away from a government injecting ideas of violence and hatred toward it's own people.

Being Brazilian, I'm well aware of how our mainstream press work, and even though, those tactics are not only restricted to the Brazilian press, you only need to go back a few years and see how the British press, which is supposed to be impartial and a public service, clearly supported one candidate to the detriment of the other. But not wanting to digress too far, A Fantástica Fábrica de Golpes, is a smart and well researched documentary, showing the inner works of Brazilian press and their disregard for fairness, truth and democracy. A must see to all those who care for those principles and even those who don't.