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This awful documentary is unbelievable. It is, for sure, one of the worst movies I have ever watched. It is astounding how the producer and director (an anchorman of conservative radio programs) dared to select a so biased group of interviewees to explain Brazil, some of them clearly unable to produce a complex analysis - from politicians such as ex president Cardoso (who abandoned his past reputation as an important sociologist to become a rancorous newspaper commentator) and presidential candidate Marina Silva (as Cardoso, she is also a fierce opponent of the governments which had been ruling the country for a decade) to irrelevant upper-class Brazilians living in the United States (curiously, perhaps aware of their controversial participation, the synopsis in the official website describes the film as "Just real. Made by Brazilians. With no foreign interference."). No social movements, no progressive intellectuals, no slum or countryside people appear on screen. The outcome is obviously elitist, right-wing, bitter to then Federal Government, with almost only unsophisticated testimonies. The elegant rooms where most of the interviews happened are a metaphor of how far from Brazilian people this movie is. If you want to know more about Brazil, its complexities, what was going on there by the end of the first decade of XXIst century, I strongly recommend you to look anywhere else.