The film Cat Skin was a great film I enjoyed how it shows real life struggles of Brazil during that time. The film shows how life is full of tough decisions, the boy selling the cat for a dollar, showing how little he makes for a big sacrifice: loss of innocence and childhood. The film also shows how to other side lives, the rich and wealthy having the luxury to own a cat for fun and the poor children have to steal cats just to get by. I also noticed at the end after the boy sells the cat he wipes his tears ultimately showing how the “have-nots” have to suck it up and keep pushing.

I also enjoyed Glauber Rochas film ” Di Cavalcanti” honoring his friends life after his passing, although it wasn’t ethically executed I did understand why Rocha followed through with the film. Especially when Cavalcanti’s family was not okay with Rocha filming the funeral or exposing the closed casket. Overall you can see through the chaotic fast imagery and manic like talking that Rocha does during the film, you can tell Rocha is hurt by his friends passing and is expressing that pain through his art.

Madison Reed