Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
September 16, 2007
A friend of mine from middle and high school was the assistant director and producer of a movie called Manda Bala, and I went to a screening in Cambridge on Friday. It’s a documentary about Brazil, tying together government corruption, kidnapping, and frog farming in a thoughtful, powerful, and convincing way. It won a jury prize at Sundance earlier this year, and after seeing it myself I can definitely understand why. It’s funny at times, but is at its heart a serious and at times gruesome look at the effect of Brazil’s enormous economic inequality. If it’s showing in your city, I highly recommend that you get out there and see it.
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