The documentary The Coup d'Etat Factory explains the recent political history in Brazil, comparing it with its violent and turbulent XX century events.
More than a collection of testimonials, directors Victor Fraga and Valnei Nunes sew a thread of surreal facts in Brazilian current affairs into a patchwork. It's difficult to explain the unexplainable. But this documentary succeeds in chasing the truth -- the playful truth that likes to hide itself.
Brazil's complexities and plurality do not show off only in music, arts and sports, but they reveal themselves in daily life. Hence it is quite complicated to understand how Dilma was impeached, why Lula was imprisioned and why the extreme right-wing "suddenly" became so powerful.
The power of TV Globo is as strong as Fox News in the United States, with the difference that there is no other TV channel as broadly watched as TV Globo. 29% of Brazilians are functional illiterate. The majority of the population watch TV Globo newshows without comparing it without any other medium. But most recently, Brazilians have been infuenced by fake news to a degree that it is difficult to verify what is really true.
If The Capture (BBC show) is still fictional, and deepfakes of politicians were not yet detected in British politics, in the Coup d'Etat Factory the Fake is alive. It is devouring Brazilian people.
A copy of The Coup d'Etat Factory should be sent to cinemateques all over the world. It is crucial that Brazilian history ceases to be erased.
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