Despite moralist and predictable, this comedy film is not only funny but also puts some light in social and cultural life in Brazil few months before military coup. Class relationships are in the core of the story, and the movie also shows how public service was in the core of social life those years, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, decades before neo-liberal age (and there was already prejudice against it, with the widespread idea that public servers usually do not work and are corrupt). A poor maid (Dercy Gonçalves) is explored by her employers (particularly Odete Lara), with whom she has a blured labor/personal relationship, and dreams about not being a servant anymore and about having her own domestic employers. A middle class couple of public servers dream about living in luxury, just like colleagues who do not work hard. Millionaire sugar mill businessmen have luxurious lives and evade taxes, offering bribery in order to slip paying the fine. All characters but the honest auditor try to take undue advantage in the story. Though, the film had the predictable and straight happy end... differently from Brazil, that eventually entered a 21-year bloody dictatoship.
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