How the movie is still forcing Brazil here to face the heritage of dictatorship | Arts and culture news
But the movie found a resonance in the present and the past, as Brazil was catching with the attempt to coup of a modern coup.
Only last month, the president of the pipe marked the second anniversary of the riot in Brasilia’s three forces of Plaza, where protesters hoped that he would cause another military uprising.
Thousands of supporters of former president Jairo Bolsonar descended to Plaza on January 8, 2023, just a week after the pipe took over the duty of a third, unconstratory term.
There, the Rioters broke in the Supreme Court, the National Congress building and the presidential palace in Brasilia, clashes with security officers. Police say violence was part of a multiple attempt to throw out the pipe and return Bolsonaro to power.
Lucas Figueirodo, a journalist and author of several dictatorship books, believes that the lack of awareness of the past has enabled many Brazilians to romanticize the age of military rule.
“To this day, the army sees himself as a right to try a coup in the 21st century. This is enough evidence that no memory of these events has not been built,” Figueiire said.
Former captain of the army, Bolsonaro, publicly defended military dictatorship and expressed nostalgia for that period.
During his Presidency, from 2019 to 2022, he also released the Commission for Amnesty and a special political death and disappearance commission – two panels intended to document and respond to the human rights of the past.
When asked about the movie that I’m still here, Bolsonaro told a Bloomberg journalist: “I won’t even waste time.”
Figueioretra believes that the fact that no officials have been punished for their role in military dictatorship, they have helped to encourage today’s restlessness.
“It created the dynamics of impunity that favors attitudes like the ones we saw on January 8,” Figueiirek said.
But Marcia Carneiro, who teaches history to Fluminense to the Federal University, noticed that the feeling of impunity can fade, given the pressure that Bolsonaro and his allies be responsible.
On February 18, the Chief Prosecutor of Brazil, Paulo Gonet, filed charges against Bolsonar and 33 people, accusing them of planning to overthrow the government. Bolsonaro could face in prison for decades if he was convicted.
“A new awareness is coming out that those who act against the rule of law can be punished. This is interesting and new in Brazil, “Carneiro said.
If Bolsonaro was in power, Carneiro believes that the movie I was still here may have welcomed protests and even attacks.
She noted that under Bolsonar in 2019, protesters launched Molot’s cocktails at the headquarters of the Porta Dos Funtis group, in the midst of a short Christmas movie on the Netflix that Jesus portrayed as gay.
But even the film’s policy may have dull some of the right -wing criticism. I am still focused here in the strength of the family, sketching an idyllic home life disturbed by violence.
Experts say that the emphasis on family dynamics over politics has made an attractive wide audience.
“Everyone has a family – a mother, a father – and he was hit when they see them suffering. Viewers recognize the possibility that something like this is happening in their home,” Carneiro explained.
