Most disappointed with this one, a long-awaited project that is only seeing the light of day now since it's addressing a topic that's everywhere
in the media and the case of Angela Diniz murder on the hands of her boyfriend Doca Street, in 1976, was huge on the issue of feminicide (back
when such term didn't exist), and later on got the famous term "Quem Ama Não Mata" ("Who Loves does not Kill") coined.
The way for this to work would be a major exicision of the couple's relationship (played by Isis Valverde and Gabriel Braga Nunes), just going for paradise times, troubled times but without the excesssive sex scenes, breaking up and returns, go to the actual case and head for a long aftermath which is the trial and the debate generated on society. We'd have a better movie and a spetacular trial movie to shock audiences.
But nope. Instead, it focus on rich people's sadness (and I'm trying to not be insenstive). But it's like everybody's sad, all the characters.
Sure, one can learn a lot about relationship dynamics between men and women and how they cope at difficult times, and loving times, it's a so-and-so text book on the matter, but the majority of time there's a small series of glamoured life of the 1970's Brazil with the majority of it all is sadness and bitterness, nothing is complete.
The Diniz case set a huge blase on people, it's discussed ever since 1976 and today's audiences needed a more satisfying movie for audiences to learn about it, see how society changed (little, must say) from them and the women's movement end up becoming a powerful force afterwards.
Too bad the film became a series of excessive drama, jumpy because it doesn't explain much about an incident from her past - the dialogues were too criptic and I had to research about that incident; it's a repetitive film that just drags on with average performances - except for the maid, she was pretty good.
Suggestion: if available, the Linha Direta episode or just listen to Youtube coments on the topic or podcasts elsewhere. 5/10.
The way for this to work would be a major exicision of the couple's relationship (played by Isis Valverde and Gabriel Braga Nunes), just going for paradise times, troubled times but without the excesssive sex scenes, breaking up and returns, go to the actual case and head for a long aftermath which is the trial and the debate generated on society. We'd have a better movie and a spetacular trial movie to shock audiences.
But nope. Instead, it focus on rich people's sadness (and I'm trying to not be insenstive). But it's like everybody's sad, all the characters.
Sure, one can learn a lot about relationship dynamics between men and women and how they cope at difficult times, and loving times, it's a so-and-so text book on the matter, but the majority of time there's a small series of glamoured life of the 1970's Brazil with the majority of it all is sadness and bitterness, nothing is complete.
The Diniz case set a huge blase on people, it's discussed ever since 1976 and today's audiences needed a more satisfying movie for audiences to learn about it, see how society changed (little, must say) from them and the women's movement end up becoming a powerful force afterwards.
Too bad the film became a series of excessive drama, jumpy because it doesn't explain much about an incident from her past - the dialogues were too criptic and I had to research about that incident; it's a repetitive film that just drags on with average performances - except for the maid, she was pretty good.
Suggestion: if available, the Linha Direta episode or just listen to Youtube coments on the topic or podcasts elsewhere. 5/10.