Marighella

An important film that tells facts that many people try to erase. Films like Marighella remind us of the atrocities of the Brazilian dictatorship and bring a past that we must never forget so that it will never be repeated.

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Great movie, very necessary for the moment. Several Brazilians still believe he was a terrorist and are unfamiliar with the truth. As the history and the movie shows, the facist party were invested and demolishing his image and making sure his ideals were not to be passed forward, but here we are, learning the truth they tried to cover years ago.

Great movie.

A tad slower than I would've liked, though 'Marighella' is still very good.

Seu Jorge puts in a noteworthy performance throughout, all the more impressive given acting isn't his bread and butter. I also enjoyed Bruno Gagliasso in this, not his character of course but the actor's showing is good. The rest of the cast, e.g. Humberto Carrão and Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, merit praise too.

I can't say I knew anything about Carlos Marighella (surname did ring a slight bell beforehand, mind) or even much about this era of Brazil, which is something I actually prefer as I like to judge a film as a film and not having prior knowledge only helps that. Therefore, I wouldn't know how truthful this biopic is or isn't but I will say it doesn't hold much back - there are some very rough scenes scattered across the near 3hrs.

Speaking of the run time, I do think it's ever so slightly overlong - I was never pining for the finish or anything close to that, but there are a few moments where I felt the film could've sped itself up a bit. It's not a true criticism of mine, though.

A fact-free film, an homage to the urban guerrilla guy who wrote a "handbook" of guerrilla tactics worthy of a Hamas or Al Qaeda militant, a guy who considered civilian deaths collateral damage while seeking to establish a communist dictatorship . But these are things not seen in the film, which even falsify the historical character's skin color. The film itself tries, without success, to show a traumatized and cornered protagonist, who had no option but to fight against the dictatorship that ruled Brazil at his time, trying to humanize the main character to the point of making the performances and situations very shallow and boring. And the film still fails to make clear what goal Marighella wanted to achieve. 4/10