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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  • Donnell 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    In any case, qualitatively speaking, it is more like a documentary than "Hospital in a Cave". Post-democratic Brazil has become more chaotic, corrupt, and sectarian. Even the online reviews of the film are polarized, like Rotten Tomatoes, and even more exaggerated on Metacritic. Of the 169 fan reviews, 87 are positive and 74 are negative, either 10 or 0. There is everything to say, and it seems that there is more truth than the film. 7

  • Russ 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    What Chen Danqing said is also what I think: from my experience and memory, the day when democracy is realized is not a peaceful world, just like when the revolution is successful, the world is especially unpredictable. I care about the morality of the crowd, the normal state of society, and whether the bottom line is lost.

The Edge of Democracy quotes

  • Petra Costa: A Greek writer said that democracy is only working when the rich feel threatened. Otherwise, oligarchy takes over. From father to son, son to grandson, from grandson to great grandson, and so successively.

  • 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!