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The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent (2025)

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

13/04/2020

Saw this Brazilian film for the first time in Rotterdam with dutch subtitles so that was smart. Having said that I watched it for a second time with English subtitles and honestly I didn’t gain a great deal more information although there were some really great lines that went over my head the first time

- everyone was naked like all the time and honestly I didn’t mind it. It was nudity in a really positive way as well like I mean everybody was naked not just the conventionally attractive people who we normally see naked 

- something I remember being really funny about watching it in the cinema was how many logos there were before the thing actually started like how many companies did it take to get this off the ground? A fuckton

- the image of a huge truck running over a coffin and completely obliterating it was pretty powerful 

- at the end I didn’t really know what was going on with the German guy shooting everyone

- lunga’s character was really cool because I assumed that she would use male pronouns because she was a very male presenting and masculine person so that was a really cool bit on gender they did

- the little ufo was a surprise

- the concept of it is really cool of a tiny place being wiped off the map by a politician and then the population rising up and killing the people who were hired to kill them? Genius. Somehow it wasn’t quite as well executed as the idea promises, but its still pretty solid

- ohhhh god the bit where one of the soldiers shoots a child was awful

- there’s a shot of someone lying in bed just before all the horses bolt through bacurau and fucking hell it was lit like heaven

- shit really started kicking off at about 40 minutes and at that point it felt like it was going to get interesting 

- all of the people who the politician guy hired were fucking psychopaths I swear to god

- the conversation about if the bikers were white and where they could feasibly be from if they were white was supremely uncomfortable also I didn’t understand why they were shot. It felt like they’d done something sneaky but I didn’t know what that thing was

- there was a super random bit where two of the hired assassins had just killed a couple of people and they were really hyped about this so they had sex in a field to celebrate while the little satellite flew overhead with someone watching them through a camera who was apparently pretty confused

- I didn’t like the shot of the guys head blown off because a) very very gruesome no thank uuuu and b) it looked like he wasn’t human because the inside of his head was hollow and I didn’t know if I was meant to interpret something from that or if they literally just shot him so hard his brain flew out of his skull

- the end scene where there weren’t any people out in bacurau and the hired people were just walking around was really cool because I didn’t know what was going to happen so when it was revealed they were all hiding that was ace

- watching them all watch as the main bad guy walked down into the hole they dug to leave him there to die was very haunting

- I know this is a good film. It hasn’t stuck with me as much as others have and I probably won’t cite it as great inspiration to me. But its a good film nonetheless 

Road movie caboverdiana a ritmo de funaná y regada con litros de grog, Djon África es una sorprendente mezcla de géneros que van del documental al musical con tintes oníricos. Improbable mix que funciona en gran medida gracias a su protagonista absoluto, el rapero Miguel Moreira. Pese a no ser un actor profesional. Moreira —cuyo nombre artístico es John Tibars Africa Noventaz, el Djon Áfricaque…

“(ESTADÃO) A Polícia Federal deflagrou nesta terça-feira a 6ª fase da Operação Acrônimo, que investiga esquema de tráfico de influência para liberação de empréstimos do BNDES. As ações foram autorizadas pelo Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ). A Coluna apurou que estão sendo cumpridos mandados em Minas Gerais e São Paulo de busca e apreensão e condução coercitiva. O foco é uma obra de construção do aeroporto de Catarina, em São Roque, na Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba (RMS), que foi financiada com recursos do BNDES.

Os recursos foram liberados mediante pagamento de contribuição de campanha pela empreiteira JHFS para Fernando Pimentel (PT), governador de Minas Gerais. A operação financeira foi intermediada pelo empresário Benedito Oliveira Neto, o Bené, apontado como operador do governador petista. Bené fez acordo de delação premiada. O instituto Vox Populi é alvo da operação. Conforme as investigações, a ajuda financeira foi via pagamento ao instituto de pesquisa eleitoral.

Também está entre os alvos Eduardo Serrano, atual secretário-geral da governadoria. Ele foi citado na delação do Bené como um dos intermediários de propina supostamente paga pela Odebrecht a Pimentel.

Na época dos fatos, o governador de Minas era Ministro do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio do governo Dilma e presidente do conselho de administração do BNDES.”

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