Bye Brazil example essay topic

Summary really enjoyed watching the film Bye, Bye Brazil. I found it to be amusing as well as heartbreaking. I loved Gypsy Lorde. His character had the charisma bordering that of a male chauvinist pig to that of a gentleman.

I liked the way the director used symbolic images to get his point across to the audience. I think if I had not done research on the Internet for most of our assignments as well as reading the textbook, I would have found the movie very educational. I had no questions after watching the film. However, it did make me realize how the majority of cultures will assimilate during the process of change, losing a little if not the majority of their traditions that were establish decades ago. Bye, Bye Brazil (1980), a film by Carlos Diegues, tells a story about the struggle of two couples trying to find their dreams in a country, Brazil, that is being overcome by social changes and undergoing massive technological transformations. United by their dreams, the couples travel through the back lands of Brazil in a truck, to seek places where they can not only make a living, but also find their dreams.

The insights gained in the course of the journey are insights of both acceptance and change. The main character, the accordionist Cico, starts by joining the Carnival Rolidei as means of breaking out of his suffocating town, and from his pre-determined course of life. The character Gypsy Lorde is portrayed as an ambitious and cynical manager without scruples who is reluctant to see the changes around him. Salome, Gypsy Lorde companion, is as cynical as he, but transmits an air of quiet resignation to the fact that things are changing, whether they like it or not.

The fourth character Dasdo, Cico's wife, is very plain looking compared to Salome, very quiet, and passive. Like Salome, Dasdo also quietly resigns to the fact things are changing but she also tries to give an array of hope that the Carnival will survive and prosper. Bye, Bye Brazil unites in its characters and situations the same elements, which are part of the many processes that are transforming Brazil. The carnival travels from poor town to another. You can see the surprise and disgust of the characters as they move from one part of Brazil to another. Finding that either the young have left behind their old for modernization or that the town people have been captivated by the magic and illusions presented by television.

As with the carnival you can see how the old Brazil is fading away, to be replaced by something more generic and less authentic. Another illusion that Carlos Diegues presents in the film is Cico unrelenting obsession with Salome, who is too hardened to return his love. When the carnival must break up, Cico realizes his responsibility to his wife and their baby daughter. The two couples go their separate ways and live their own lives, each coping with a new Brazil, void of roots and traditions. In the end, both couples find their dreams. Gypsy and Salome, not being able to find a place untouched by modernization, give into the technological revolution by creating a new act that will cater to the New Brazil.

Cico and Dasdo also fulfill their dreams as artists and parents. Throughout the movie, you can witness the changes that are symbolized by old and new. There is the wiser but older Salome and Gypsy vs. the na " ive younger Cico and Dasdo. You have villages that are captivated by the illusions presented by the new modern televisions making the older more cultured carnival obsolete. Also, the young people of the smaller backwoods towns, like Cico, are leaving behind their old and roots for new and more modernized cities built on the investments of foreigners. Bye, Bye Brazil is a very good film that addresses the issue of change with the lost of ones culture through satire and symbolic meaning.

Carlos Diegues did an exceptional job on showing how change can affect an entire country and its people. Although one is mostly focused on the events happening to the characters, they cannot miss the underlining messages about change, diversity, ethics, morals, and environmental issues that are presented in the movie as well.