I found that Black God White Devil by Glauber Rocha perfectly embodied the revolutionary spirit of the Cinema Novo movement. The film explored themes of violence, mysticism, and social injustice through Manoel and Rosa’s journey to seek salvation in that harsh and oppressive land. Throughout the film Manoel and Rosa are torn between two forms of messianism: Sebastiao symbolizes spiritual transcendence while Corisco represents the immanent revolution. I like how Rocha depicted these two ideologies and explored manoels internal struggle to choose one. Visually the movie was stunning, especially the shots that played with shadows and the close-up shots. I like the experimental style of the movie, seen in the editing and cinematography. I later found out that the film was based on a real-life massacre that occurred in 1838 and how this historical episode has come to symbolize the nation’s tendency toward destructive purification.