1964.1968. Memórias de um tempo em que tanques e fuzis atropelaram sonhos e deixaram espíritos sem rumo

Abstract

The 1960s were convulsive around the world. Remembered as the era of imagination and of political and social revolutions, in Brazil, this journey was interrupted by the 1964 Military Coup, which abruptly cut the links that founded the political action and the creativity of the intellectual life. Thinking of those years I suggest for this review the film The Other Side of Paradise (2014), by André Ristum, and the documentary Marighella (2012), by Isa Grinspum Ferraz. The film was based on the homonymous book by Luiz Fernando Emediato, written in tribute to his father, Antônio Trindade, and the documentary by Isa Grinspum Ferraz was filmed in honor of her Uncle Carlos Marighella. The choice of films is an opportunity to learn about two characters who dreamed and tried to fulfill their dreams in the 1960s, in Brazil. One character is anonymous and the other is known, but both have their dreams ran over and got banished from the same history.