The film is a precise depiction of the mood in 2018 in Brazil, when Jair Bolsonaro was elected as president of Brazil. The dispair an perplexity of those who support democracy and human rights was precisely like what was shown in the movie. However, despite that, the movie is not good (but it is obviously far from the disaster bad ratings suggest). Why? What the directors and producers intended is not clear, and there are different problems depending on their very intention. If the idea was to criticize the naive and poorly politicized upper and middle-class non-activist leftists who do not connect to the majority and agree that the art and positive thinking will be enough to change things, a different approach, not in first-person, would be desirable. As spectators follow character Luisa, her point of view is implicitly portrayed as "the correct". It is true that the character has an arc, changing her behavior as the story advances, in contrast to her lovers-friends-roomates. Then, the intention of the directors and producers coud be to didactly induce spectators with the same drawbacks shared by the characters to be more pro-active and critical. That possibility could be reinforced by the talk in the bar, where minor characters Bella and the black guy (whose name I could not find) have several quotes clearly directed to explain what was going on in Brazil to the three (Luisa, Johnny and Ravel) and to the spectators. Well, did they expect that only that profile of spectators and citizens would compose the entire attendance of the film? They have all traits of the caricature of what the left is in the eyes of the most narrow-minded conservatives: they use drugs, are bissexual and have an open love affair, they do not want children and have a family structure that is very different to the conventional, they are apart to day-to-tay problems and life of lower classes, they party and sing all the time and are never seen working or studying, they want a better world but have confusing and esoteric understanding about politics and society. Off course left wing people are various, and among them there are people identical or very similar to those in the leading roles, but the film decided to chose the closest possilbe to the caricature to represent them (with both traits which are not problems at all if there is no prejudice, and also effective drawbacks). Therefore, if spectator is right wing, if she/he voted for Bolsonaro, she/he will probably reinforce her/his perception about the left and about her/his own vote for the far right after watching it. Particularly because one of the best built characters in the movie was João, the guy who would vote in Bolsonaro. Among the three main characters, musician Ravel is a particularly annoying character. To resume, the film has the great merit in portraying well a dramatic moment in Brazilian history, but chose characters that may bias the very understanding of what it portrays.
