Manda Bala is an american documentary treating common brazilian problems such as kidnappings and corruption. The documentary consists of a bunch of interviews with everything from a kidnapper to a corrupt politican. And everything in between such as police officers , plastic surgeons, farmers, prosecutors, a woman who was held as hostage, authentic footage from kidnappers pleading for a ransom and much more. The amount of work put into the film is quite a lot; they´ve managed to cover the most important angles of the problems by a decent sum of interviews. I really appreciate the connection being made by a prosecutor, and the film itself, between corruption and the actual violence (as seen with money related such as robberies and kidnappings).
The documentary gives a lot of useful information about the brazilian society but the subjects treated are left quite un-investigated and leaves the viewers with an urge of knowing more – which is good. The film works well as an introduction to many of the problems the brazilian society faces every day. There´s not really anything new for a person familiar with the brazilian society and the mechanisms running it except for new faces in case one had missed the allegations on Jader Barbalho.
Either google your way to it or go see the documentary here (with swedish subtitles).
Power hungry politicans 2.0 « greener than paradise said,
August 12, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
[...] seen in the documentary Manda Bala I mentioned the other day Jader Barbalho, a without doubt case of corrupted politician, owns the local tv, radio and [...]