A simple and cute view on forming significant relationships during the Covid pandemic. It's the encounter of a young intern (Daniel
Rangel) with a female student (Heslaine Vieira) before the "new normal" sets in, but he tries to find her during the social isolation period,
despite not knowing her name.
"Tudo Bem" touched with relevance the ideas of how lost and confused social connections were during the period, many online meetings, people trying to find what to do to keep themselves busy or entertained, but also missing gestures, touches, close talks rather than the already and exclusive internet interactions. Would there still be a world after the disease and many deaths? Would we find some meaningful relationships during or after everything? Those kind of notions many have felt at the time, and the film was made and release during the peak of everything, it's not a mere retelling of the early 2020's.
Main couple has some fine chemistry, some nice conversations - specially their very first meeting discussing the films they seen. But the presentation of it all makes it a quite confusing piece with a late flashback (which answers the random initial encounter), and the otburst from the girl, while relevant to the narrative, doesn't convince even if done with a particular strange person that you have a small intimacy. It felt aggressive and a total turn off (if there's people who try to attract a special someone, and goes with such mode, and have no problem with that, I wonder how they succeed).
It's a honest piece, greatly made though it's not something I'd watch again so soon as the memories of that slowed period still linger on in a tragic manner. Yet it's final message addressed at the end about how valid is okay to not be okay, among other feelings many of us felt at the time, are of great value. 6/10.
"Tudo Bem" touched with relevance the ideas of how lost and confused social connections were during the period, many online meetings, people trying to find what to do to keep themselves busy or entertained, but also missing gestures, touches, close talks rather than the already and exclusive internet interactions. Would there still be a world after the disease and many deaths? Would we find some meaningful relationships during or after everything? Those kind of notions many have felt at the time, and the film was made and release during the peak of everything, it's not a mere retelling of the early 2020's.
Main couple has some fine chemistry, some nice conversations - specially their very first meeting discussing the films they seen. But the presentation of it all makes it a quite confusing piece with a late flashback (which answers the random initial encounter), and the otburst from the girl, while relevant to the narrative, doesn't convince even if done with a particular strange person that you have a small intimacy. It felt aggressive and a total turn off (if there's people who try to attract a special someone, and goes with such mode, and have no problem with that, I wonder how they succeed).
It's a honest piece, greatly made though it's not something I'd watch again so soon as the memories of that slowed period still linger on in a tragic manner. Yet it's final message addressed at the end about how valid is okay to not be okay, among other feelings many of us felt at the time, are of great value. 6/10.