Documentário Democracia em vertigem: film analysis

Or documentary Democracy em vertigem, produced by Netflix and released in 2019, was made by filmmaker Petra Costa. The long metragem narrates the process of political crisis lived during the final period of the PT government and the impeachment of then president Dilma Rousseff.

As a long time ago, Petra tells her vision of her about the delicate moment that she lived in or the country and registers the polarized reality that was established.

The film was indicated for Oscar 2020 in the category of the most recent documentary and featured on the list of two best films from the year of the New York Times.

(Attention, esse artigo contém spoilers)

Indicação ao Óscar

Or Brazilian film Democracy em vertigem, Launched at the Sundance Festival - the occasion that opened the event and was acclaimed for the silverware - concorde to bring up the statute with the following documents:

• American factory
• The cave
• For Sama
• Honeyland

The result was released on February 9 at a ceremony held at the Dolby Theater, in Los Angeles. O document that won the statute foi

American factory.

The New York Times classified Petra's production as two melhores films of 2019 and described it as "an absolutely vital document." Second or daily, Democracy em vertigem uma face

Carefully analyze two events that will lead to the election of Jair Bolsonaro, or the populist president of Brazil, this distressing documentary and the most scary film of the year.

Document analysis Democracy em vertigem

As an intimate and personal take, the film by Petra Costa uses powerful images that summarize two periods of major political turmoil in Brazil.

Long year of production we see the fragility of a relatively recent democracy e a political polarization between a direct and a scheme that provides an environment for extreme-direct ascent in Brazil.

A construction of the document

To tell that story, Petra traced the fabric from public events such as a voting process. Dismissal of Dilma Rousseff at the street marches against or impeachment that took place between 2013 and 2016.

Apart from archive images, the filmmaker goes through records of political backstage, excerpts of television reports, interviews and pessoais recordings.

Ao longo de todo o film a narração em off de Petra led to history. According to the English journal The Guardian:

During the whole process, at the voice of Petra accentuates, but does not interfere excessively in order to allow the story to be told without powerful compilation of original and archival material, images recorded in the midst of riots or captured by drones hundreds of meters above Brasília.

This continuous contrast between being close to naught, but at the same time being not high, is haunted for a long time from the perspective of the filmmaker, always simultaneously part of history and distant observer.

A visit to the past

In order to try to understand how we do where we do, Pedra Costa proposed um mergulho in the political history of the country the last decades and especially portrays the hard moments lived during the military dint.

This temporary cut began in the 1970s with political persecution and progress attached to the prison of former president Lula and taken over from Sérgio Moro as Minister of Justice of Jair Bolsonaro.

Petra had privileged access to years between presidents and obtained a series of interviews and depositions that helped to behave in the narrative of a fractured country.

A pessoal story

Or film não é nothing impartial. It is through the declarations of Petra herself, that she made a narration in the first person, that we perceive or impact two Brazilian political events.

For the first few minutes of the film, we have a clue of the relationship of affectionate proximity that the filmmaker maintains as the subject that she chooses to treat, her voice off I concluded:

To Brazilian democracy and the United States, we fear that at the same time, and then we would both be on the ground.

Logo not the beginning of the history, let us perceive or align Petra and two of her countries, as well as more than a skeleton turning or film not only a political record as well as a personal story.

O documentário deixa glimpses, by sinal, a biography not only of the filmmaker as well as her close family of her: country, avós, uncles and cousins.

As controversies raised documentary hair

Em Democracy em vertigem as institutions of power seem to be placed in prova as far as it is apparent dismantling of public institutions previously considered solid.

Petra criticize the attacks on the press and testimony to the return of censorship also two retrocesses in terms of science and culture.

The last days of Dilma can not

A filmmaker is also subjugated to the fabric or political isolation of Dilma Rousseff, who is seen to be allied during the process of cassação do her mandate.

To the former president, I recently disclosed a note or announcement of the indication to Óscar stating that

Or film shows meu afastamento of power and as venal media, to the Brazilian political and economic elite An attempt against democracy not a country, resulting in the promotion of a candidate is extremely direct in 2018.

Or film to affirm that there was also a coup d'etat question or partial paper by Sérgio Moro in front of the investigations of the Lava Jato operation.

Do local to or universal

Despite portraying a local political and historical moment, in a certain form or record of Petra, a democracy is found in vertigem in a series of non-world countries.

We are witnessing in a quite evident way in different parts of the globe the rise of extreme directness and populism, raising a growing political polarization.

A public and critical duality success

Despite having received a series of criticisms, I received a sea of ​​praise, according to the Netflix streaming platform, Democracy em vertigem It was a public success.

A production ficou in second place as the most assisted Brazilian hair document during the year of 2019. Or Petra's film is back under the title Our planet.

Among the critics of produção as principais accusações estão o faato da narrativa be a Maniqueísta (elegendo com simplicidade mocinhas e vilões), partial (sent for Petra's ideas and two seus pais de her) and fanciful.

Quem é Petra Costa?

Ana Petra Costa is a member of a militant country. The politician Manoel Costa Júnior and the sociologist and journalist Marília Andrade was part of the PCdoB during his military service.

A filmmaker is also net of Gabriel Donato de Andrade, two founders of the multinational construction company Andrade Gutierrez.

Born in Belo Horizonte in 1983, Petra had been born in two longas-metragens before the document Democracy em vertigem.

A filmmaker is not in front of the film Elena (2012) - seu primeiro longa-metragem - e Elm e a gaivota (2014).

Com Elena Petra received the prêmios de melhor documentário nos festivais de Brasília and Havana. As a second film by her, he took home or award for the best documentary from the Festival do Rio.

A 36-year-old youth was indicated for Oscar for the first time as his most recent document. Democracy em vertigem.

I wish to create a work that deals with the recent history of Brazil arising from the inspiration of the documentation To Batalha do Chile, where the filmmaker Patricio Guzmán narrates the events that precede the military coup in his country.

Data sheet

Original title	Democracy em vertigem (The edge of democracy)
Launch	Jun 19, 2019
Director	Petra costa
Roteirist	Petra costa Co-roteirists: Carol Pires, David Barker, Moara Passoni
Gender	Documentary
Duration	121 minutes
Awards	Indicated to the award of the best documentary in the Sundance Festival Indicated year Oscar 2020 by melhor documentário

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Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).