Bacurau2019

The set-ups and sight gags are deftly handled, though the after-effect is more dispiriting than cathartic. Like Bong-Joon Ho’s Parasite, it’s a film that feels of the moment, that leaves us with the question. And after all this is through, then what?

不知大家注意到没有，包括中北南美和东南亚在内的这些热带亚热带地区（回忆一下《突袭》）有种特殊的精神气质，当其克制为世人所熟知的奔放热情那一面，转攻冲突暴力的时候就很容易进入某种邪典肃杀的状态，换作别的地区前后两个部分极易风格脱节的本片，在巴西人的这种气质强烈作用下竟然相当流畅地过度成功了！甚至“裸体”与“暴力”这两个通常需要散布各处分项演绎的抢镜元素也都能裹挟着黑色幽默高度浓缩到一身一刻……三星半。

There’s a reason this movie was a critical and popular success in Brazil: It resonates. And despite the beauty of the weathered local faces this movie celebrates, it resonates for anyone, anywhere, watching it. “What do they call the inhabitants of Bacurau?” a young boy is asked. “People!” he responds. Just so.