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Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (2020)
Misogynous and elitist
This TV series is a delirious dream of an elitist carioca that lives at a high income region. Paulo is a middle age man-child architect that poses as an intellectual even though he's just an alcoholic that recites bad poetry at the bar.
The series is a sequence of Paulo's affairs where exhibits all his warped sense of partnership. From betraying his partners to gaslighting and disrespecting them in public, Paulo throws tantrums around every episode towards woman in order to pressure them to do whatever he wants, blaming them for his wrongful acts and abusing them in many ways. The directors constantly sugar-coat him, trying to diminish his vices and defects. Paulo drinks whisky all day and treats woman as trophies to be conquered and objects to have sex with. AV productions do not need to show just kind acts and well-behaviored characters, however this series makes the huge disservice of normalizing misogynous acts as everyday things. Most characters are middle/upper class hypocritical citizens of Rio de Janeiro that engage in non-sense lustful and pitiful plots.
It's a complete mess, this isn't a homage to women, it's just a men's dream where he tries to fill-in his own emptiness with women and proceeds to dump them when he gets bored. There's no place for this in the 21st century.
Me and my girlfriend would rather had not wasted time watching this.
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Really grew into me, very sensitive and thoughtful
Wes is really one of my favorite directors, so this review can and will be a really partial, so take that in account.
In "The Darjeeling Limited" Wes continues to work around family issues and bonding, so if you liked The Royal Tenenbaums like me, it will grow into you too.
It presents the story of three brothers that meet again and travel to India in some kind of spiritual pilgrimage after not speaking to each other for a long time given certain events.
The movie dissects the fraternal relationship between them and links smoothly to their parents, their personalities are well defined and its development can be easily spotted along the movie. Soundtrack is superb and shooting locations are really interesting, however India and its culture could be more well explored, movie itself creates a beautiful but shallow picture of the country.