Product: Me You Them (2001)
Rating: 5.0
Love in the Third World
I haven't seen many Brazilian films, but every one I've seen really blows apart--really challenges--your morals. I claim that I can watch this with an open mind, in order to objectively judge the outcome, the impact to each of their lives. Does each character find meaning in his/her life?One aspect of the plot that is interesting, is Darlene the main character bears each man in her life a son, except for her legal husband. This has some fullfilling effect on these men. Her husband on the other hand, emasculated in a sense, in the end does what he can to preserve some vestige of his manhood and status.I love movies that take me somewhere. This movie is beautifully shot, yielding many scenes of its stark beauty, but it by no means romanticizes. The setting is of a vast dry land. It is hot. They live in mud houses (Of course this appealed to me in look and practicality.). Everyone sleeps in hammocks.The people, though very poor and unglamorous--to me this made them genuinely beautiful--have a rough life. Darlene, the main character must work, even when pregnant harvesting in the cane fields.