Brainstorm(Bicho de Sete Cabeças)
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Brazil · 2001
1h 14m
Director Laís Bodanzky
Starring Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis, Dani Nefussi
Genre Drama
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A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.
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