Pra Frente, Brasil

This movie talks about the reality of dictatorship in Brazil. If anyone has the opportunity to watch "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam and this movie, there are some features that are pretty similar in both of them. The torture, the dictatorship are similar. The final scene when one of the characters is tortured in a chair resembles a lot the final scene of torture and death of the character in "Brazil" of Terry Gilliam. Perhaps he had some influence while making his movie and could this be the motive why his surreal movie is called "Brazil"... We will never know.

The scenes of torture, where a naked man hangs from a "pau de arara" instrument of torture is like reality. It is a great movie for us not to forget that any kind of dictatorship is terrible. Military governments will never solve violence problems anywhere. They will only increase it. Violence will never be solved with violence.

This movie is about one of the worst periods for the brazilian people. Shows the days of military dictatorship when the brazilian people against the government were put in jails, tortured, and some of them assassinated by the military and para-military people. At the same time, the same government censured the press and didn't allow anything but news about three times-champion soccer team. While the people made parties, etc for the soccer team, in the underground, people suffered all kinds of torture. It's very denseful, strong and realistic movie for those who know about this period of our history.

Roberto Farias is most known as average filmmaker, he made countless low-profile pictures of questionable taste, as Roberto Carlos trilogy, The Tramps (Trapalhões) and some soft porn movies as well, the highlights be summed up in few of them as ALL NUDITY SHALL BE PUNISHED, a true classic, maybe their best production ever.

Prá Frente Brasil Robert Farias dealing with an neuralgic subject to portrait a hard period of time during Brazilian military dictatorship on the early seventies, however caught in mass grave exposing it as silly and kitsch melodrama much like those tiresome and everlasting TV series made by Globo channel, even hiring some of Globo's regular TV stars as Antonio Fagundes, Natalia do Valle, Elizabeth Savalla and so for, somehow it has undermined the production.

Moreover a lame and far-fetched screenplay mixing drama and romance spoils too much the early preposition, instead focusing in the main subject, at least a wise fusion of wherein the Brazilian football team is running for world championship at Mexico meanwhile unfolds the fictional story, it brings a fresh concept on a sea mediocrity, well to ascertain my thought this picture wasn't released on DVD format, despite it had a higher rating at IMDB.

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First watch: 1992 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.

Excellent film on Brazilian military dictatorship (very well) made while authoritarian regime was still active. That explains some sitiations in which the movie could be expected to be nore critical (like in the text in the beginning, which talks about "two extrene sides" instead of about state tettorism and prople who resisted), but also highlights the impressive vourage of all the crew (they showed torture, the businessmen' involvement, and even that the lack of reaction of the average man was mediocre and no reason to be proud of). All actors did a great job, well directed by Roberto Farias, in a movie carefully built from the cinematography to the dialogs and soundtrack. It is one of the most important movies of the direst period of Brazilian history.