Powerful hit by Titãs at the peak of their career with the classic album "Cabeça Dinossauro", the single "Homem Primata" gets a quite conceptual video that uses of
some of the key elements from the song to compose its images.
While dealing with the theme about mankind evolution from the apes to humans and how animalistic men are while living during modernity inside the concrete jungle of
cities, the group appears performing in the crowded streets of São Paulo, sometimes with interaction with the public or other times on top of a moving truck; and along
with those images, we have images from apes similar to the ones presented in the classic 1968 film "Planet of the Apes" (very amusing images). On a more slightly critical
note comes the group eating bananas inside of a cage but you can get the general idea they're making with such imagery. We humans haven't evolved a bloody thing.
Considering this was made for the "Fantástico" program and long before MTV, it's quite a rarity in terms of video echoing the song's lyrics and meaning. And unlike
the majority of similar videos from the same program, this is the least tacky or corny. It's quite effective, cool to watch and it has the nostalgic feels of seeing a
major Brazilian city in the 1980's - downtown São Paulo and it hasn't changed all that much the locations that appear in the clip such as the square next the Teatro
Municipal and the future City Hall. Maybe the only weird aspect is seeing how young those guys from Titãs were (Charles Gavin was blonde; Sérgio Britto and the late
Marcelo Fromer had a great deal of hair). Anyway, it's lots of fun. The video creates the reflection, create the thought but you don't need to think much deeper. Just
enjoy the song. 9/10.
