Off course the film is irregular, as softcore pornochanchadas used to be at the best. However, Carlos Reichenbach was very clever to use that popular mainstream Brazilian movie genre and bypass censorship in order to criticize military dictatorship under the regime itself (Pra frente Brasil did it too outnof the genre, but in a less repressive moment; a three-year distance mattered). Victims are left wing people who fought dictatorship, but are presented as lusty polygamous fugitives who are hidden making a lot of sex in a paradise island. The nemesis is a mischievous assassin who was hired by repression agents, who are dirty and care about nothing. Behing softcore, political message has been delivered in a movie with a fast production, beautiful natural set and good soundtrack.
Review of The Island of Prohibited Pleasures
