Criticism | Legality

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Legality, the actor's last work Leonardo Machado who died on September 28, 2018, is a film with a proposal to show the beginning of the fall of Brazilian democracy and what led to the dictatorship.

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Leonardo Machado in one of his best works, gives life to one of the main Brazilian politicians, Leonel Brizola.

This is shown through the then governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, played by Leonardo Machado, who in his speeches shows himself to be a civil leader and believer in the ideals of freedom.

It is not a political drama or to praise Brizola. It serves as a basis for understanding an era, which many still insist on not believing that it existed or that they do not understand.

Brizola is the front man so that Jango, vice president of Janio Quadros, who has just resigned, can return to Brazil and take over as president.

Something simple and that everyone understands. But behind the scenes, it was more than that, where the military and many politicians made speeches accusing Jango and even Brizola of being communists.

It's just not a defense that the film makes. It just shows what was behind the scenes and lets you understand that giving extreme sides to people is too simple. And that not everything is black and white or simply the mixture of these colors.

Unfortunately, Legality falls into the trap of putting romance in the middle of this discussion. Not that it shouldn't exist. What gets in the way are romantic scenes happening amidst shootings and death threats, which makes the film too fictional and loses all historical content.

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The romance between Cleo Pires and Fernando Alves Pinto breaks the film's narrative, leaving the scenes tiring.

In any case, Legalidade is a good film to continue to serve as a memory so that past mistakes are not repeated and to remember that no matter what your ideology, we are all Brazilians.

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criticism-legalityLegalidade is a film with good historical content, but it fails to mix a romance in the midst of the turbulent political moment of the time.

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