The Edge of Democracy

1/10/2021

Stopped after watching half. Not sure what it was, but the storytelling never grabbed me and I found it both too slow (constant interruptions of the core story with uninteresting personal recollections) and too fast (not enough time setting up the historical context and showing the sequence of events clearly).

2/23/2022

One of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Offers an in depth dicussion of the rise and fall of the socialdemocratic party in Brazil with an artisanal and thrilling 1.p-pov narrative.

9/25/2026

You know what I'd like to see? Brazil's TV Globo making a two hour documentary about political corruption in the USA. Let's start with Nixon, then Bush/Gore, Clinton/Lewinski, Trump/Clinton, Trump/Biden, Trump... anybody. Then add in an impotent and acquiescent Congress and then finally ask the self-appointed arbiters of world cinema - AMPAS - to give it an Oscar! What chance, eh? Well instead of dreaming, we have this sadly quite depressing analysis into the deeply polarised political situation in a Brazil latterly torn between supporters of Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva - both elected Presidents of a population of some 220-odd million souls. Using an impressive array of archive footage and some unusually candid access to both of these controversial individuals, themselves, this attemp