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10/10
Cinema and its art to "let be involved"...
25 May 2007
Most of the times, when we see a movie, we do not see it, we not feel it like a vivid fact, but we see it as a thing that is "out of us", apart of what we experiment each second of our lives.

Cinema is life, vivid experience, you and it, dialog, and not a standard of stimuli that we feel the necessity of fitting and of comparing, it is there to be lived!

Yesterday I began to realize better that, while watching "O cheiro do ralo" of Heitor Dhalia. The movie is brilliant, and the character of Selton Mello even more. Cynical, arrogant, shy and lonely. Lost in the middle of so many objects, which serves to try to provide this 'lack', the lack of something, of feeling, with the other, of contact..."I do not like you and I never liked nobody". The obsession, the money, the ' assumption controls of everything and of all '. Before so many losses he buys, it is the only weapon that he has.

It makes us think about all the nuances that wrap the human life, in all the bizarres thoughts that " we want not to have thought ", or for shame, for fear or for disapproval. It makes us understand that the life is desire, want of living, of feeling, of " being there ".

"O cheiro do ralo" manages with expertise to expose the strange and bizarre daily life of a character that is there on the screen, which is very different from us, but on the same time he manages to say very much of ourselves.

To laugh .... to think ... to get emotional ...to get bothersome ... for me this is life!
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10/10
a slap in the face...
29 April 2007
Through this movie we manage to see, in the raw and sincere form, all the sore spots that help to compose the current Brazilian view of our stated society. The best itinerary and great acting help to give to the movie more realism, making it nearer of us, it does so that we feel sad and bothered. It shows that we need to know more the country in which we cheer and which the contact with other, it is he of any social class, it is necessary so that we become more human and more conscious of our situation like Brazilians.

The director got, with his intriguing history and using of extremely valid flashbacks resulting from the history, like still we live in a late and selfish time.

A great Brazilian movie that needs to be more accepted and spread!
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