terça-feira, 3 de novembro de 2015

ÓTIMO REVIEW SOBRE JUDAS ESCRITO POR TOM FISK PARA O WORCESTERSHIRE FILM FESTIVAL DA INGLATERRA



Review incrível do curta-metragem JUDAS escrito por Tom Fisk para o Worcestershire Film Festival que acontece na Inglaterra!



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"TRIGGER WARNING: Not for the squeamish or faint of heart.

Horror is a wider and more intelligent genre than it is often given credit for. Many of the films within the genre touch upon nuanced emotional truths, economic and political problems and pure inhumane but essentially human desires. Horror films often do this better than the social realist dramas that deal with these topics in a direct and literal fashion. Caetano’s Judas is one of these horror films.

Judas examines the mental anguish of extreme poverty, familial abuse and bullying from your peers. It primarily does this through one young Brazilian boy’s relation to Holy Saturday and to the tradition ‘the burning of the Judas’. This cultural tradition brings people together in celebration as much as any other cultural tradition does, but Judas exposits a crueller truth.

Theologically speaking Judas might be the ultimate sinner and betrayer, but if examined more literally he is arguably a victim of a cowardice he didn’t choose to possess. Judas’ young protagonist empathises with this underlying problem and sees that blaming Judas doesn’t remove him from the clutches of poverty and abuse, but in fact maybe attributes further to a cycle of pain and injustice. The protagonist is treated by his father like Judas and is as undeserving. It is difficult to explain just how expertly the film explores these themes without going into extreme spoiler territory, but rest assured it is well worth watching.

The film shows rather than tells through stark visuals and witty editing. Rather than use a cheap washed out filter to convey poverty and depression Caetano wisely leaves in vibrant colours and trusts the audience to understand his intent. The tone shifts naturally between moments of surrealism, cruelty, depression, violence, gore and dark but very funny humour. Avoiding ‘tonal whiplash’ is usually a juggling act even for films with a runtime of 120 minutes, let alone one with a run time of ten, but Caetano manages this balancing act perfectly. 

Judas is a cinephile’s dream, it is intelligent, idea driven, thematically rich, visually cunning whilst balancing upset with dashes of humour. 


By Tom Fisk" 

LINK: http://worcestershirefilmfestival.co.uk/films/judas/ 


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