The edge of democracy

Anthony 2022-01-18 08:01:56

It's about Brazil, and honestly I could only understand like one fifth of the whole content due to my limited vocabularies. But I do get one idea, democracy is facing quite a setback there and I don't know exactly why( I doubt anyone can explain at all).

The documentary is mainly about Lula, a pro-democracy former president, now in jail. He founded a party called Workers' Party to fight the dictatorship in the 80s and later elected the president after three fail attempts. And the reason getting him into prison is corruption, allegedly. The problem is somehow legislative, as the prosecutor and judge being the same one. They turned on Lula based on the simple evidence of a suspicious gift house sent to him whose owner is indeed unclear. Lula decided to turn himself in at last, because he said, as I quote, “I believe in justice”.

The reason why I am calling this a setback instead of a failure is that I believe democracy. Yes, some pure and arrogant confident on people and more importantly, on people. The documentary do mention the media run by the rich are doing something which is quite effective on the votes. But if a documentary like this can be made in the nation, things were not that bad, as I suppose.

Another thing I want to mention here is about house cards. The politician there stresses many times that power overweighs money. But what are you going to do with all this power, I mean, after all, you have got yourself the president? Some say , a political legacy, something people will always remember you for. So it made me think, after all those killings of journalists lobbies and enemies, they have to be responsible to people in the end. Doesn't that sound both hopeful and sarcastic?

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  • Lupe 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Democracy without justice makes one impeachment one election a witness. Powerful individuals and groups can abandon their own words for power, turning what was once a mantra and democracy into a pile of politically manipulated shit. Democracy is not omnipotent, and people who have lost their sense of reason and civilization have not yet realized that they are falling into a boundless vortex.

  • German 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    As a part of the magical land of South America, the political chaos in Brazil has both its historical institutional reasons and a microcosm of the global economic slowdown and the rapid rightward turn of politics, which is already a relatively reliable country in South America. The film itself is not very clear, but it is just standing in Brazil itself and talking about Brazil, it is not able to analyze the causes of various aspects from a higher perspective, nor does it refine the central idea. However, the director has a prominent background and can dig up some private materials, so the historical value is still quite high.

The Edge of Democracy quotes

  • Self - Ex-Presidente: It's no use trying to stop me from travelling around this country, because there are millions of Lulas, Boulos, Manuelas, and Dilma Rousseffs to do it for me. There's no use in trying to stop my ideas. They're already in the air, and you can't imprison them! There's no point in trying to stop my dreams, because when I stop dreaming, I'll be dreaming through your minds and dreams! There's no point in thinking everything's going to stop the day Lula has a heart attack. That's nonsense! Because my heart will be beating through yours, and there are millions of hearts! The powerful can kill one, two, or 100 roses. But they'll never stop the arrival of spring, and our fight is in search of spring!

  • Petra Costa: The fact that there is no evidence that he's the owner of the apartment is considered proof of his attempt to hide it, and this proof is used as evidence that he's the mastermind of the scheme.