O Ebrio - The Drunkard
The ending of this film was effective in that it went against what we would expect to see from a film coming out of this time period. The ending is filled with coincidence in that Gilberto, Lola, and Marieta all find themselves in the same bar. We almost assume that there will be closure. Although he accepts Marieta's apology, there will be no further interaction, which was a surprise to me.
It seems as the times progress (at least through the films we have been screening), we are able to see more and more Brazilians that are not of the elite class. Unfortunately, most of them are shown as caricatures except for Gilberto. Both his maid and his cousin's are not portrayed equally. Despite the type of treatment they receive by their "masters," they still show love for their bosses. Although this film stereotypes the lower class, it appealed to a vast amount of people. As we talked about in class, drinking was and still is a serious problem in Brazil. It seems as if many could relate to Gilberto's reason for drinking. To forget.
posted by Adam Blaszkiewicz at 11:07 AM
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Good post Adam.
O Ebrio was strange in that it had somewhat of a classical Hollywood structured story going on, and at the end you almost expect everything to end up okay with Gilberto as he meets his old love at the bar. But of course, things look bleak for all of our significant characters, and I think that actually made the story far more enjoyable. I think it used it's mimicry of classical Hollywood storytelling as almost a way of sort of luring the audience in...and then spat in the face of that same audience with it's bleak ending (and I say this with appreciation). It's a critique on the same people that likely went to watch the film, but it's such a neatly packaged disguise that nobody would ever notice until the end.
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