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Nomadland (2020)
After a sh**ty year we deserved more fun than Nomadland
Maybe in 2019 my review may have been different. But honestly, watching one depresive character after another for 2 hour, was hard not to feel like them, cranky and miserable. I think these are special times with special needs and we deserve better.
That been said, I have travel across 54 countries, pooped on wost places than a bucket and never felt sad, just joy, like those very brief moments when she is in nature. Every day I travell I get that joy, and sometimes it's with less than 100 bucks a month. So take your gloom to another year and give humanity something more uplifting during a pandemic please! I have to go, still haven't finished watching all the Jerusalema challenges. Now we are talking ;-)
Carandiru (2003)
Funny, honest, human, wonderful movie.
Brazil is a country of contrasts, and this movie show that perfectly. The same person that can kill somebody without thinking it twice can be nice and gentle at very the next moment. Been in Brazil has this feeling, you may expect violence and danger, but you may get 99% of the time generosity and happiness. An, well, when you put 8000 man in the space of 4000, and they manage to create a micro-universe with there own rules, that works better than the world outside, it just can be in Brazil. Plenty of humor, humanity and honestly, this movie is superior to City Of God, just because it has a positive, optimist message regarding that'111 or so prisoners died in the 1990s' as Alexdffy point out above, showing a lot of respect for human life. Wightly recommended for open minds, that can see the person beyond the criminal...and not criminal to.