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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