1967 ‘Terra em Transe’ Directed by Glauber Rocha
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Tierra en trance, Terre en transe, Gi se ektasi, Terra in trance, Ziemia w transie
Glauber Rocha going to the guts of Latin American populism and vomiting it back at us. Still as perfect as an angry dispatch from the frontline of war can possible gets. It is an eternal present tense that just refuses to age.
"As nossas riquezas, as nossas carnes, as vidas, tudo, vocês venderam tudo, as nossas esperanças, o nosso coração, o nosso amor, tudo, VOCÊS VENDERAM TUDO!"
Rocha devia ser é doido de fazer Terra em Transe no despontar da ditadura no Brasil. Não me surpreende ele ter sido assassinado com "tuberculose". Esse deve ser o filme mais brasileiro junto à Cabra Marcado para Morrer, e eu atribuo o contínuo estado de contemporaneidade dos aspectos políticos aqui apresentados menos à genialidade do Glauber do que a insistência em continuar sendo oprimidos por 'aqueles'.
Dear Cod, how did a film so corrosively cynical about the political process get made under the noses of the Brazilian junta?
And how can such a frenzied, LOUD movie be so entirely cerebral in its affect?
Fragmented post-Godard narrative orbiting around the crises of conscience faced by an idealist who enters the political system for good reasons, gradually recognizing that the electoral politics he's immersed in only exists as a feedback-loop that maintains and propagates power and withholds the opportunities for meaningful change from the electorate... who, in turn, are so naively confident in the democratic process (and otherwise so apathetic and "indolent") that they're blind to the third-path possibilities open to them, and indifferent to their own ability…
***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***
Two years before Costa-Gavras constructed the best political drama of the decade and one year after Algeria achieved independence thanks to the vision of Gillo Pontecorvo (cinematically speaking), Terra em Transe became a rare phenomenon. Few political dramas have achieved a giant status of mastery and technical innovation. Glauber Rocha, who mostly focused his filmmaking style and talents in the direction of westerns, dares to speak out loud for the sake of the Brazilian nation. Due to the heavy censorship of the tumultuous 60s, he disguises the truths of the country with a fictional creation, which is one of the smartest and most stylish decisions I have personally witnessed. The…
"o país está mergulhando numa grande crise, não sei o que fazer, o melhor é acreditar no presidente"
"estão vendo o que é o povo? um imbecil, um analfabeto, um despolitizado"
Rocha's masterpiece and one of the greatest works of not only the cinema of Brazil or Latin America but cinema overall; the world has always been hell but I don't remember the last time I saw damnation this chilling on a screen.
I saw the nations of the world as they were getting old
and I saw myself as an old man
civilization was still young but the mankind was
old and I realized I never understood.
I never loved. I never decided because
I couldn't.
God never came to earth and how could she or he have come? All I can see is corruption and materialism and materialism and corruption are curse words
weakness in the mind of a…
uma visão do presente no passado; quem sabe algum dia a gente saia desse círculo vicioso
“Se deres voz ao povo, o que fará o povo?”
A audácia de Glauber Rocha em Terra em Transe torna a experiência de assisti-lo ainda melhor. Perceber que toda a crítica perfeitamente desenhada por todo o longa-metragem foi exibida em plena Ditadura Civil-militar é, no mínimo, chocante. Em meio a tanta censura, Glauber foi capaz de entregar um filme denso, poético e atemporal, fazendo história no cinema brasileiro.
Com teor marxista, Terra em Transe questiona a própria base filosófica do filme: - esta discutida fervorosamente no marxismo contemporâneo - quem representa o povo? Quem tornaria-se líder em uma possível Revolução do Proletário? Em 1967, Glauber Rocha já levantava dúvidas do século XXI de forma sublime. Com a atuação teatral e…
“O povo sou eu que tenho sete filhos e não tenho onde morar.” (...) "A caridade apenas adia, agrava mais a miséria."
meu favorito do glauber rocha! (só vi um filme dele)
"Qual o sentido da coerência?
Dizem que é prudente observar a história sem sofrer,
Até que um dia pela consciência a massa tome o poder. (ele sorri)
Ando pelas ruas e vejo o povo apático, magro, abatido,
Este povo não pode acreditar em nenhum partido.
Este povo alquebrado, cujo sangue sem vigor,
Este povo precisa da morte mais do que se possa supor.
O sangue que estimula meu irmão à dor,
O sentimento do nada que gera o amor,
A morte como fé, não como temor."
"o país está mergulhando numa grande crise, não sei o que fazer, o melhor é acreditar no presidente"
"estão vendo o que é o povo? um imbecil, um analfabeto, um despolitizado"
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