The good: very nice cinematography on the sets and great panoramic takes of Brazilia, the capital city of Brazil. Gives an almost chronological overview of recent Brazilian political developments. I really liked the interviews of some nice people like Janaina and shows beautiful shoots of the people on the streets.
The bad: It is extremely biased politically, at the same level of Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda movies for the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1930s. This documentary is a work of propaganda for Lula and his (heavily criminally charged) Workers Party. The movie explicitly defends the condemned criminal of Lula, while claims any opposition to his authoritarian government, which ruled with the iron first of institutionalized bribery to control the houses of Congress and keep opposing parties under his thumb, is an attack on "democracy". It reminds me of when Xi Jinping claims China is a democracy, and then he suffocates anything he sees as a threat to his power.
Lula has ruled Brazil for 14 years. During this period he destroyed the independence of most other competing political parties by buying then with institutionalized bribery programs, paid for with the money from state corporations such as petrobras as well as private contractors (in exchange for profitable contracts). Lula used the power of local strongmen in the poorest parts of Brazil to buy millions of votes to stay in power forever in the executive (himself or his puppets such as Dilma and Haddad) while the legislative was kept under control of the executive through bribery. The name of the situation where a certain organization takes control of a power of the State and suffocates other powers and institutions is dictatorship: Lula's government was as democratic as the military dictators that preceded him. His government was similar to Putin in its methods. But, unlike Putin's case, eventually the police found out this instituinalized system of political bribery (mainly because it became too big to hide while Brazil still had some institutions outside of Lula's control) and Lula's party was impeached from power, gradually yielding the power back to the Brazilian people, representing the return of democratic norms, which were consolidated in the elections of 2016 and 2018.
She eventually claims that Lula and his cronies were somehow corrupted by the evil system of Brazilian politics. As if she were completely unaware that Lula's party is a Marxist Leninist party, an ideology which believes in the idea of violent revolution, and the stablishment of a dictatorship of the "proletariat". They never were democrats! Which is proven by the fact that they do not recognize the legitimacy of any other political position.
As in the fact she, as a proper Marxist radical, paints the impeachment of Lula's puppet as an attack on "democracy". At the same time she demonizes all politicians from outside Lula's party because they disagree with her. Apparently she is not aware that democracy is based on the dialogue of different political positions.
For example, she demonizes Brazil's current president, Bolsonaro, who is perhaps the most popular politician in Brazilian history, who managed to earn 58 million votes without campaign money and any political support in his first presidential run, by portraying him as some sort of (poorly defined) virulent threat to "democracy". It is true that, so far, his government has not been the most competent, but it already achieved a quantum leap in democratic participation vis previous governments based on bribery and authoritarian ideologies.
But I understand where her point of view comes from: she, being a member of the elite, has suffered the political brainwash that is performed on most elite Brazilians at school. So she rationalizes everything into a simplistic narrative of "good" (Lula) versus "evil" (anybody who disagrees with Lula). This simplistic populism is in my opinion the biggest political problem confronting Brazil.
The bad: It is extremely biased politically, at the same level of Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda movies for the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1930s. This documentary is a work of propaganda for Lula and his (heavily criminally charged) Workers Party. The movie explicitly defends the condemned criminal of Lula, while claims any opposition to his authoritarian government, which ruled with the iron first of institutionalized bribery to control the houses of Congress and keep opposing parties under his thumb, is an attack on "democracy". It reminds me of when Xi Jinping claims China is a democracy, and then he suffocates anything he sees as a threat to his power.
Lula has ruled Brazil for 14 years. During this period he destroyed the independence of most other competing political parties by buying then with institutionalized bribery programs, paid for with the money from state corporations such as petrobras as well as private contractors (in exchange for profitable contracts). Lula used the power of local strongmen in the poorest parts of Brazil to buy millions of votes to stay in power forever in the executive (himself or his puppets such as Dilma and Haddad) while the legislative was kept under control of the executive through bribery. The name of the situation where a certain organization takes control of a power of the State and suffocates other powers and institutions is dictatorship: Lula's government was as democratic as the military dictators that preceded him. His government was similar to Putin in its methods. But, unlike Putin's case, eventually the police found out this instituinalized system of political bribery (mainly because it became too big to hide while Brazil still had some institutions outside of Lula's control) and Lula's party was impeached from power, gradually yielding the power back to the Brazilian people, representing the return of democratic norms, which were consolidated in the elections of 2016 and 2018.
She eventually claims that Lula and his cronies were somehow corrupted by the evil system of Brazilian politics. As if she were completely unaware that Lula's party is a Marxist Leninist party, an ideology which believes in the idea of violent revolution, and the stablishment of a dictatorship of the "proletariat". They never were democrats! Which is proven by the fact that they do not recognize the legitimacy of any other political position.
As in the fact she, as a proper Marxist radical, paints the impeachment of Lula's puppet as an attack on "democracy". At the same time she demonizes all politicians from outside Lula's party because they disagree with her. Apparently she is not aware that democracy is based on the dialogue of different political positions.
For example, she demonizes Brazil's current president, Bolsonaro, who is perhaps the most popular politician in Brazilian history, who managed to earn 58 million votes without campaign money and any political support in his first presidential run, by portraying him as some sort of (poorly defined) virulent threat to "democracy". It is true that, so far, his government has not been the most competent, but it already achieved a quantum leap in democratic participation vis previous governments based on bribery and authoritarian ideologies.
But I understand where her point of view comes from: she, being a member of the elite, has suffered the political brainwash that is performed on most elite Brazilians at school. So she rationalizes everything into a simplistic narrative of "good" (Lula) versus "evil" (anybody who disagrees with Lula). This simplistic populism is in my opinion the biggest political problem confronting Brazil.