A crazed and inventive collage of many artistic expressions, from film to music and dance and poetry, "Inventário da Rapina" is of tough comprehension and absortion yet
at the end you can envision a wildly vivid love letter to the city of São Paulo, as typical in the many works of cinematographer/filmmaker Aloysio Raulino.
With countless images of the city's downtown and other places, Raulino intertwines poems and reflections; in one initial sequence there are still photographs of a face
then he cuts to images of a building antenna, and the sequences goes on for a long time as a voice describes an initial violent sequence from Dirty Harry's film "Sudden
Impact". Except for the city I don't see much connection in this puzzling gathering of ideas but creative and thoughtful minds certainly can find the real larger speech as
put together by the director. A city of great thoughts that can connect itself and its people through a Hollywood film, or a fiddler executing some songs, or the large
statues faces coming out on the top of a building - I love those images, it's from a court located near the Pateo do Colégio and it's in such a busy and hurried place
that you don't have an actual good time to look all the way up to notice its magnificent art and expressions; or also a man telling about a frantic meeting with a woman but
in the end it all turns out right. It's up to viewers to try to find ways and meanings to its images, sounds and words, a view from the top, as if seen by a bird - hence the
title "Prey Inventory".
Not an easy watch but it's quite good. I had to go through two consecutive views in order to find some sense because it seems a little bit disjointed. It's not, but
don't exact an exact dialogue of all elements combined - the overview comes way afterwards. As usual with Raulino works, the cinematography work is outstanding and beautiful
to look at. Truly impressive. 6/10.
