Triste Trópico

This documentary is narrated by Othon Bastos focussing on the adventures of a fictional character Dr. Arthur Nogueira who returns to Brazil after completing his education in Europe and takes up a a messianic figure. He spearheaded a rural exodus movement in Brazil in the 1920s using his identity. Well you can't see this happening, none of that and i do not want to believe what is happening, it is very tough to build a perception in order to figure out who is the protagonist of the film. It When an unseen image tries to fit in with the real world of the viewer, it cuts to archives of family movies, animated visuals, poems, anthropological research and gets more bizarre. Director Arthur Omar's experiment was made specifically to stand apart from the style of Cinema Novo and Marginal Cinema, he gets it with constantly accelerating pace with so many whirlpool of scenes of madness and music. I somewhere that Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina saw this decided to make The Vampires of Poverty (1978) as a counter to Arthur Omar. I will admit, at first i thought it was some anthropological video with themes of tropicalism. It slowly changes and moves with a absurd rhythm, the psychedelic effect of the film is comparable Fernando Birri. This will not of interest to everyone as it in built on purely avant-garde experimentation, sometimes weird but fans of the genre will be able to view it from a completely different angle.