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As a documentary that explores deep religious-political issues, it's no wonder that there will be (and there are already) lots of negative comments about it. However, Brazil (like many other countries) has been split open in two halves of the political spectrum for quite some time now. But what we see in this film (and in Petra's previous one) is that, in Brazilian history, it was always the right wing that resourced to violence to force their ideals. When open violence was no longer an attractive tool, they turned to religion, offering easy, messianic tools to promise solutions to a struggling people often failed by democratic institutions. The poorly educated masses of Brazil are easy prey to evangelical-politician hawks who, deep within, care a lot about their pockets but nothing at all about their flock.

Brazil was never meant to be a country built for itself and its people, and we can see the results now.