(2011) Xingu
(In Portuguese with English subtitles)
HISTORICAL DRAMA ADVENTURE
Co-written and directed by Cao Hamburger that takes place during the early 1940's with two brothers of Claudio and Leonardo Villas disguising themselves as simple peasants so that they can be part of an expedition group to travel through Brazil's amazon forest. And it was during at this time, Claudio sends a telegram to his brother, Orlando sitting at an office to come and join them. Together they eventually stumble onto native Indians who were isolated from the rest of the world, after crossing the Xingu River. And at first, the Xingu tribe were frightened of them, until both Claudio and Orlando offered them a well brandished knife as well as other gifts. Resorting to an unlikely friendship between the isolated Xingu tribe and the explorers.
Although, the movie is based on fact regarding the problems with urbanization to a prehistoric tribe, what is not touched so much on is why the President or superiors that once aboriginal land had been discovered by white men that they can do whatever they want or lay claim on land that was already inhabited, I wish it dwell more on the why than to show, how the Villa brothers succeeded into either convincing other tribes to move into the Xingu clan. It would be nice to hear what the other side have to say about the reason why roads and so forth had to be built on territory already inhabitant. I'd love to know more about the tribes.
