Thought provoking? The documentary captures the media and society's responses to the event.
You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. * And so #2 defangs and even reverses the criticisms from some over #1 - that, by detailing his backstory, the film makes excuses for Sandro. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists ...
They form a section of Brazilian society that it is unseen and ignored by the mainstream and we feel this alienation, both in the street jugglers performing at traffic lights and the criminalised teenagers concealing their faces from the camera. May 3, 2005 Bus 174 is a distressing documentary. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Masterful.
The more-than-often-repeated threat by the hijacker to "Set the heat up" made my blood boil. Operates as both a harrowing doc and a deeper interrogation of our voyeuristic appetite for the media’s violent spectacle. Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years. The intentions behind making this documentary might be good (i.e. Directed by José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal With the rise of U.S. distribution companies in Brazil, some say that domestic success of the film hinged on their support or that of Gob Filmes, a film production company founded in 1990 by Globo Television Networks.
The stories, though, that really tore me up were from the former street kids as they described the various hells they lived through. May 8, 2007 As the hijack escalated into a siege, with the hijacker taking the passengers hostage at gunpoint, it quickly became a television sensation, bringing the country to a halt and generating the highest ratings of the year.The second story is that of the hijacker himself, Sandro do Nascimento, which the filmmakers piece together through interviews with participants in the siege and Sandro's friends and family. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged both at the police brutality and their incompetence. In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
Cinemark | Rating: 3.5/4 We learn that his mother was murdered in front of him when he was young, leaving him destitute and traumatised, like hundreds of thousands of children in Brazil.Homelessness is terrifying enough, but to have any understanding of the plight of street kids, we need to factor in the total lack of prospects, or state support, the near impossibility of finding a job and routine beatings from the police.
The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen. All rights reserved. The jail thus looks even worse than what our imagination had told us from the first scene because the inmates have been turned into an indistinct, wailing chorus trapped in a Dantean hell.