Hitler IIIº Mundo

Brazil, plagued by the tyranny of a military junta since 1964, is a real prototype for the fragmented story of a dictator who was sent by the Agency for Coups in Third World Countries to bring fascism to the poverty-stricken favelas, an order that is as already fragmented as the plot itself. Everything that is present in other Cinema marginals is here: discontinuity of narration, pop-art aesthetics, and asynchronous image and sound, given also by the fact that the film, naturally shot with a minimal budget, is dubbed with simple voice-overs so that the resulting "natural" mismatch between the characters' dialogue on the screen and the sound creates a good perceptual preparation for all the other musical and sound mismatches. Above all, there is something that crowns the whole approach and creates a strong experience out of this film, which at first glance is only a plaything without rhyme or reason. Mockery and undermining the dignity of the dictator's character could be considered an ironic mockery of the ruling military regime and its support from the United States, etc. This is undoubtedly true in the first plan. However, this irony drowns all the characters, including those fighting against the dictator, the entire situation - paradoxically, except for the film situation - so we find ourselves in a situation where positive identification with either pole is not possible: the protagonists end up in despair and failure, while the antiheroes are just ridiculous characters. After digesting the waste of Western civilization, American mass pop culture, and European fascism, there is only a taste of a dead end left after the mockery. The senseless ugliness of comic book costumes and political cross-eyed scribblers without a way out from the chaos of the audiovisual Latin American carnival gone mad. (05.11.2018)