Violence in Brasil

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2005)

We are often warned about the dangers in Brasil. Thank Goodness, I didn't watch this one before my first trip to Brasil. But afterwards, it is a hypnotizing film. The changes in time makes you follow the movie more carefully, you don't want to miss the action. The violence in the movie, yes, it is a very violent one, is not the same kind like in the Hollywood-films, or in some raw European modern movies. It doesn't play with the amount of blood: When they shoot someone, you get the idea without slowmotion close-ups! It's better this way. I like the simplicity of the Brazilian actors. No over-acting is needed, this is a movie of the life in favelas as it was, or even is today, as I have heard.