Quebrando a Cara

"Quebrando a cara" is a nice documentary about the best Brazilian boxer ever, Eder Jofre, world champions twice. It brings many interviews with him and his relatives, besides a lot of footage of boxing, both of training and of his great fights. The chosen approach of including many testimonies from relatives not only makes sense because of the obvious fact that they knew Eder Jofre since he was a child or since the beginning of his life, but also because many of them also practiced boxing. Indeed, it is told in the movie that no other family in the world had so many boxers as this one. One other issue appears importantly in the whole film, not only in the narrated stories but also in the way "the golden rooster" Eder Jofre and others speak: the social question, the class. There is probably no other sport as connected to lower classes as boxing. It is quite uncommon that someone from middle classes fights, as Eder Jofre himself comments in the film. It appears throughout "Quebrando a cara", as boxing was at once a family tradition and the means of escaping poverty.