Casa Grande (2014)
10/10
An excellent Brazilian film, very current and relevant
23 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Casa Grande is a film that had very little display space in theaters, but their positive criticism echoed by the internet, calling the attention of many moviegoers, including mine.

The film tells the story of Jean, a young upper middle class who lives with his parents and younger sister in Barra (upscale neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro), study at one of the city's best schools and their house has maid, housekeeper and employed.

The Plot is when Hugo, father of Jean, loses his job and the economic situation of the family is gradually decreasing. At the same time, crises and family problems will grow proportionately.

Its main approaches are: Adolescence, Family Living and Brazilian Reality; directed masterfully by inciante Felipe Barbosa.

The cast includes the weight of actors like Marcello Novaes and Suzana Pires, but brings the beginner Thales Cavalcanti for the lead role.

The film respects the viewer's intelligence, giving us all put to better understand each character, without throwing in our face, through extremely didactic dialogs or scenes.

From now on I will look at some key scenes (Spoiler Alert):

The construction of Hugo character is very interesting, scenes like the discussion with the van drivers in the club door shows how he is proud and arrogant. Interestingly, it exposes to the child and their friends to enjoy various types of women and that although married "is not dead", making it clear to the attentive viewer that he had sex with the maid of the house.

The scenes on quota in college is very interesting, during the meal with the Hugo family shows up for and gives the example of the US, since when is close to his friend (and collector) is a pseudo- conservative discourse and fully says against.

A very interesting metaphor that helps compose the Hugo's character is when he is gardening on top of a ladder and at the news of the phone call, which was a collection of debt, he literally and metaphorically falls down the stairs.

Another very well-built character is Jean, who like every teenager, tries to find out, while the whole family structure he was used starts to crumble.

At first it listens and seeks to reflect on his Father, as in the school scene where he suddenly opinion about quota in college he heard the family meal that I mentioned earlier. But over the film there is no longer the "Hero" to become the opposition, and everything is built very organic and natural way.

Finally, we realized that the biggest problem of that family was the lack of an open and frank dialogue on all the changes that were going through. Lacked trust and confidence between members of the family and that ended up being transferred to the relationship with employees.
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