A pair of bikers show up in a remote Brazilian village, foreshadowing the massacre that isn’t far behind them.
What a concept! And its development is something else! Forget about the classic Hollywood narrative and character development. The build-up and the escalation have a Brazilian signature, one you haven’t seen before. The everyday people, the everyday problems, the everyday average corrupted politician… it’s all there. It’s a brilliant antithesis to modern Hollywood films such as John Woo’s Hard Target (1993) or indie American ones such as Happy Hunting (2017).
Editing-wise, the extensive uses of swipes, dissolves, and flashbacks lead to a non-linear action and a pace that messes with your mind, not knowing when it will escalate or how it will escalate. Add to that the “who is who” and what everyone is hiding, and you get a mixture of Tarantino, DePalma, Carpenter, and Leone wrapped with Brazilian magic in two unforgettable hours! In a classic Hollywood narrative, every incoherence, inconsistency, and discontinuity stands out like a fart in a library. For some reason, watching a film like Bacurau means you pray for more of them.
Jordan, cheers for this suggestion, mate! Hope to see you again before you start travelling!
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