From the beginning it is clear that the main character would talk little. The first scene is with the owner of the company he work for, rambling in an European language to say that his salary would decrease. Lastly, the boss asked the translator to say to him that being black and old, what else he could have?
It is a good representation of three things:
1 - The vision colonizers have of Brazilian people.
2 - When the boss talk to employees, it is mainly to take than to give.
3 - The employee don't need even to understand what is being said.
White teens in the absence of an arm to kill him, kill his dog. White young threatened him and destroyed things of African religion. He see it through a window and there is "DEUSASSIMATODOS" written beside it, meaning "GODABOVEALL" which is sort of slogan of the Brazilian president elected the year before the movie was released. But it is mispelled: 'acima' not 'assima' is 'above'. It is a good representation of the ignorance of allegedlly Brazilian conservatives. There is written also the number used to vote. One day he was arriving in the kind of abandoned house he was living, and two of the men that threatened him were having sex and continued when he saw. After he screamed, they leave telling he should back from where he came because he wasn't from the South. It is a good representation of the contradictions of allegedlly Brazilian conservatives.
He met another employee, a black woman, and they had an affair. Then in the only time he spoke about his life, he said that his father used to beat him and his mother when he was a child. After he received more violence from the community, he goes to the woman house and screams he would fix things, she refuted his behavior and he beat her. It is a good representation of the cycle of violence in Brazilian society.
I don't think the part where a panther simply appears in front of him and other parts fit well with the rest of the story. Actually, I will add the fantasy genre here.
It is a good representation of three things:
1 - The vision colonizers have of Brazilian people.
2 - When the boss talk to employees, it is mainly to take than to give.
3 - The employee don't need even to understand what is being said.
White teens in the absence of an arm to kill him, kill his dog. White young threatened him and destroyed things of African religion. He see it through a window and there is "DEUSASSIMATODOS" written beside it, meaning "GODABOVEALL" which is sort of slogan of the Brazilian president elected the year before the movie was released. But it is mispelled: 'acima' not 'assima' is 'above'. It is a good representation of the ignorance of allegedlly Brazilian conservatives. There is written also the number used to vote. One day he was arriving in the kind of abandoned house he was living, and two of the men that threatened him were having sex and continued when he saw. After he screamed, they leave telling he should back from where he came because he wasn't from the South. It is a good representation of the contradictions of allegedlly Brazilian conservatives.
He met another employee, a black woman, and they had an affair. Then in the only time he spoke about his life, he said that his father used to beat him and his mother when he was a child. After he received more violence from the community, he goes to the woman house and screams he would fix things, she refuted his behavior and he beat her. It is a good representation of the cycle of violence in Brazilian society.
I don't think the part where a panther simply appears in front of him and other parts fit well with the rest of the story. Actually, I will add the fantasy genre here.