'A Opcao' (= Portugese for 'option') provides us with a penetrating black and white picture of the Brazilian countryside around 1981. Painting a monotonous life of hard physical labor & little leisure, in a wide & barren landscape with modest economic possibilities.
No wonder its young adults seek ways to get out. An urge symbolized by the boys becoming a truck driver, and by the girls exchanging their labor in the fields for prostitution.
'A Opcao' is a well-made film that sticks to the mind. It's also a South American film -- taking its time, maybe too much time, to make its point. Whatever, its acting is good and its picturing invariably comes out as lively and fresh. Emphasizing the dullness and lack of opportunities in the Brazilian countryside.
No wonder its young adults seek ways to get out. An urge symbolized by the boys becoming a truck driver, and by the girls exchanging their labor in the fields for prostitution.
'A Opcao' is a well-made film that sticks to the mind. It's also a South American film -- taking its time, maybe too much time, to make its point. Whatever, its acting is good and its picturing invariably comes out as lively and fresh. Emphasizing the dullness and lack of opportunities in the Brazilian countryside.
