I've heard of theis movie for a while, but never bothered enough to go and see. Now it is showing on Mubi Brazil, and I give it a try, with no information about it and with an open mind. The movie started to lost me in the first minute.
The opening scene is a close up of a girl's but while she is walking on a street for about 2 or 3 minutes. That's a foreshadowing of how bad the next minutes will gonna be. I think this is specially bad, given the stereotype around brazilian men being sex machines and brazilian women being smoking hot and always available for sex.
The following minutes show a kind of unrealistic pawn shop, more like what a rich brazilian film student think a dirty pawn shop is: a giant room with a secretary whose let people in to the office of the owner (the director probably never paid rent from his own pocket in his life, thus, do not even imagine how expensive a place like that would be for rent). There is too an unrealistic an stereotypical portrayal of a poor working class woman. Even showing the dispise rich people in Brazil has with the name choices less fortunate people choose for their children. The name of the waitress whose the butt (the same butt of the beginning of the movie) Selton Melo character is infatuated are not pronounced, cause is a merge of the father, the mother and some famous actress name. He refuses to pronounce because he is a very literate man, whose read many books in a foreign language, you know, like pawn shop owners do.
The main character is disgusting and the poor quality of the script does not allow any immersion in the story. I have only reached the 18 minutes mark before quitting the movie. The movie is from 2006 but by the humor, feels much older. It aged like milk. Fortunately, brazilian cinema has many excellent movies, letting one like this, to be forgotten (like it was right now, only raised from the ostracism by Mubi).
The opening scene is a close up of a girl's but while she is walking on a street for about 2 or 3 minutes. That's a foreshadowing of how bad the next minutes will gonna be. I think this is specially bad, given the stereotype around brazilian men being sex machines and brazilian women being smoking hot and always available for sex.
The following minutes show a kind of unrealistic pawn shop, more like what a rich brazilian film student think a dirty pawn shop is: a giant room with a secretary whose let people in to the office of the owner (the director probably never paid rent from his own pocket in his life, thus, do not even imagine how expensive a place like that would be for rent). There is too an unrealistic an stereotypical portrayal of a poor working class woman. Even showing the dispise rich people in Brazil has with the name choices less fortunate people choose for their children. The name of the waitress whose the butt (the same butt of the beginning of the movie) Selton Melo character is infatuated are not pronounced, cause is a merge of the father, the mother and some famous actress name. He refuses to pronounce because he is a very literate man, whose read many books in a foreign language, you know, like pawn shop owners do.
The main character is disgusting and the poor quality of the script does not allow any immersion in the story. I have only reached the 18 minutes mark before quitting the movie. The movie is from 2006 but by the humor, feels much older. It aged like milk. Fortunately, brazilian cinema has many excellent movies, letting one like this, to be forgotten (like it was right now, only raised from the ostracism by Mubi).