This music video by Cazuza with his timeless classic song "Ideologia" has so much going around and so many great things and aspects to be reflected
upon that I don't even know how to start. It's gonna be messy but I'll try. For a project, apparently, conceived by the program "Fantástico" this one has to be
their greatest project of all time, and nothing beats it. For a pré-MTV era kind of video, this is definitely the greatest in Brazil. It has the amazing song, a
very artistic concept that perfectly describes the song and its varied notion of what ideology is and how we are constantly bombarded with them through our lives.
Our rebel poet is one who defied social conventions and had its own ideology, even if at times many of those ideas conflicted in an odd contradiction. But he was
someone we could understand, his love for Brazil and his contempt for hypocrisy, corruption, against little souls wandering through life and many others. With his
magnum opus "Ideologia" (both song and 1988 album) he kicked audiences in the groin by showing the down and dirty and real facade of Brazil as society.
Without ever shying away from the controversy, he appears performing the song wearing countless hats (from cowboy to indian, to construction worker
to Mickey Mouse among others) and with some images of flags and symbols intertwined in each other - among the most debated at the time and which also appears
on the album cover is the junction of a swastika with a star of David. He talks about a young man torn apart following the ideologies that came over time which
makes him frozen in time since all of his idols and heroes were already dead and the ones in power are his enemies, the establishment. Like many young people
throughout history we still seek for some ideology worth living, the social, the political, the philosophical, the artistic, you name it. And as each fast frame
goes by you can sense his questionings, his indignation with the world around him and how everything is so fragile.
Considering the time, when music videos didn't have much a stance or some high artistic position, "Ideologia" rises above the others and create something
worth thinking about. It gives food for thought and it's a real pleasure to hear and see it. And so we have the brilliancy of Cazuza at full display, and probably
one of his final moments in front of cameras while somewhat heatlhy - from that year onwards, it was a sad descent due to his AIDS diagnosis, which claimed his
life in 1990 after leaving a posthumous album that obviously didn't have any promotional videos. "Ideologia" is his greatest classic video moment, one that hasn't
been equaled in all those years. 10/10.