Although perhaps not as fluid as previous documentaries from director Maria Ramos, this is certainly also a very important political film. It is considerably didactic too, as its subject may be harsh sometimes. Departing from a group of bank employees in state bank Caixa who had been fired by neoliberal attacks by Collor de Mello government, and whose struggle made it possible to be hired again one year later, the documentary compares that horrible moment for workers with the present dangers under Bolsonaro. It is a film on trade unionist struggle, on public service, on the way neoliberalism imposes itself to every element in society, on public interest v. profit, on solidarity v. selfishness and naive ignorance. One of the younger employees in Caixa bank, who appears discussing with the trade unionists, exemplifies quite well how much population is uninformed, and misguided by neoliberal mantra that is repeated everyday in mass media. As it becomes clear, all those who fight for a better world have this double challenge: explaining and convincing the mass, and struggling against the criminal who use power and governments (sometimes by legal means) to damage public interest and social justice and spoil the country in order to get private profit.
