As a poetic documentary, the film is committed to focusing on the process of self-identification as black of the individual who is considered pardo in Brazil. To this end, we spoke with 5 lightskin individuals located in different sociocultural contexts about their particular processes of building a black identity, taking into account the entire whitening culture to which they were exposed.
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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
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