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Great analysis, fortunato... And yeap, Caché is awesome, no doubt about it.
I guess Hanneke makes a strong statement...
I was just thinking: here in Brasil, a local movie called Tropa de Elite (which might be translated literally as Elite Troop, as I think you may have guessed), which portrays an elite police unit in Rio de Janeiro, won a huge lot of fans... Who just idolized Captain Nascimento, the protagonist, which, incorruptible and righteous as he may think he is, uses overtly (and overly) violent procedures to deal with the criminals he goes after. The point the director was aiming at (with which I don't agree, even though I did like the movie) was that moral choices are ultimately determined by the environment. People didn't discuss that (even though a quote about that is showed before the first scene, most spectators just forgot about it) and ended up idolizing the guy just because he didn't hesitate to torture and spank criminals. It got me thinking... We are so brutalized by violence that, as far as the results are there, many people just think it's OK... The bad guy's being shot? All right. A kid in the slum is about to have a broomstick shoved up his ass just because he doesn't wanna tell where the drug dealer is hiding? Oh, he had it coming. And so on...
Right, it may have been a little of topic... I'm sorry if that was the case.
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