Fala Brasília

This peculiar short documentary made by Nelson Pereira dos Santos truly captured the essence and reality of then new found capital of Brazil, Brasília, previously located in Rio De Janeiro and then moved to the desertic area of Goiás, at the very center of the nation. It became early on an advanced place where people from all the other states went in to work and built the city, a very prosper places that needed workers from all kinds in order to develop a space for the nation's power and the politicians.

The film's idea is to show how Brasília became so diverse with new habitants that came from all over Brazil and the many accents spoken by each interviewed individual. People from North, South, Northeast, West and East are all interviewed or appear having a chat with themselves talking about their accents, but also share their personal stories on how they come up to Brasília and if they're enjoying the place and/or plans to stay there for good.

For the language point of view it's an interesting piece for those curious in learning the variations that the Brazilian Portuguese language has depending on each region and state. With a better sound mixing (or some remaster) it'd be a bigger experience to hear and try to figure out each state and each person that appears and learn the exact cadence, exact patterns and rhythms of each speaker (no worries, Nelson identifies each state thorugh captions).

But on the other hand, it's the kind of project that could have been done in many other major cities around the country since there are multitudes of such encounters that manages to unite the whole nation in one place. The appeal of Brasília goes since it was a new born place, very promising that allowed for such junction and mixture, which added a wider context as to why many Brazilians were there at the time, the early 1960's.

A fine piece all in all. 6/10.