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On June 12th, 2000, a man boarded a bus in Rio de Janeiro with the diagram of robbing its passengers. When the robbery turned sour, Sandro, the perpetrator, turned the driver and the passengers into hostages, threatening to ruin them one by one if his demands weren’t met. Carried live on Brazilian television, the event garnered national attention as the tense standoff between Sandro and the police played itself out. “Bus 174,” a riveting documentary by Jose Padilha and Felipe Lacerda, is an myth of that event.
Not jabber to merely rehash the details of that day’s experience, the filmmakers expend their film as an opportunity to inquire many of the social ills that laid the groundwork for the tragedy in the first position. The harshest criticism is reserved for the Brazilian government and the Brazilian people who glimpse the other scheme when it comes to the hundreds of homeless children living on the crowded streets of Rio de Janeiro. Sandro was himself such a child, having witnessed the cancel of his mother at a young age then turning to street life and street crime as his only means of survival. We learn that not only is the quandary of such people routinely ignored by the gargantuan majority of Rio’s residents, but that both citizens and government officials have taken a proactive portion in harassing and, in some cases, even killing these children. Sandro is clearly a product of his environment, and his actions on that day largely extend from the lack of a societal connection he’s felt all his life. The directors also grasp swipes at an incompetent, inferior police force, a brutal, dehumanizing prison system, and a sensation-seeking, voyeuristic public who feeds on the unfolding live tragedy as if it were a Hollywood action movie or some kind of lurid scripted drama.
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Interwoven with footage from the trusty incident are interviews with various participants in the drama, ranging from police officials to SWAT team members to surviving hostages to tortured prisoners to social workers to psychologists to friends and relatives of Sandro himself. Through these interviews, Padilha and Lacerda weave a tapestry of Brazilian society that spares no one and indicts us all in one intention or another. What is most impressive about “Bus 174″ is how our emotions accept all tied up in a knot, as we procure our loyalties shifting befriend and forth between the various participants in the drama. At one moment we sympathize with Sandro and all the suffering he’s experienced, and the next with the innocent hostages who simply want to elope this madman and return to their normal lives. At times, we gather ourselves rooting for the befuddled cops, while at others, we are inclined to side with the downtrodden and study the law enforcement officials as the lawful villains of the fraction.
The events that occurred on that day shook a nation, serving as a wakeup call for a society that has attempted to sweep its injustices and social ills under a blood-stained carpet. Yet, this isn’t a set current to Rio, by any means, for Sandro’s fable is representative of what happens in all major cities when poverty and misery are allowed to go unchecked and when indifference to suffering becomes the norm of the privileged classes. “Bus 174″ is more than fair a recounting of an isolated incident; it is a leer into the gloomy heart of Man that we all ignore at our fill anguish.
A word of advice: if you are going to review, please DO NOT give away the ending…I’m cheerful I read all these reviews after I saw the video…portion of the film’s power is the suspense.
ANYway, I showed this video to my criminal justice class and we did a compare/contrast to the shootings at Columbine high school. Emotions in the class ranged from frustration to arouse to sadness and students left the room talking about it!
Although the film may be viewed as biased, there is no query to reality when one sees the interior of the jails and the treatment of the inmates, learns of the lack of training and sees it in the Rio PD, and observes the street kids as they huddle on cement in shabby blankets, sniff paint & glue from a plastic bottle, and don veteran clothing with American sports logos. It is gritty, it is suspenseful, it is shadowy and eye-opeing and everything you would want in a documentary. The needless extinguish of human beings, the surreal world outside of the US and inside of a Rio jail, and the videos of the streets where “Sergio” survived is in your face without being preachy or judgemental.
I highly recommend this video to other educators, and when you compare it to Columbine high school shootings, it brings it home with a witness at culture, law enforcement, government, etc.
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