Movie #1877 "The Edge of Democracy" --- this one was another hard one to watch for a different reason ---- it is a cautionary tale possibly about what would happen if King Trump wins the next election by cheating and his enemies (which is about 50 percent of this country, at least) gather in the street, protest and refuse to leave the streets until something is done --- OR King Trump loses the next election and refuses to get out of the white house. What happens in Brazil in just a few years ago I could see as a nightmare that could happen in our country --- it's like the title --- just on the edge of democracy, but it is a fragile place to be for Brazil because they had a president (Lulu) that they liked because he was their first president (from having a dictator) and he made their life easier, but he did his work through corruption, so people with integrity started to speak up and try to vote him out --- when it is hard to get rid of him, the two party system hates each other so much, they go to the streets and lawlessness prevails. We know in the US we have to take the loss of the impeachment and move on and win at the ballot box, but if that voting is not legally done, then lawlessness could prevail, and that's what I am afraid of in the next election., And this film got me thinking about it. When truth no longer matters, when integrity is not as important as power and greed.......then all our country has stood for, for years, can go out the window. And that's what happened with Brazil. But their democracy was not as old as ours --- so there is hope.
I must admit, I thought a lot about this film as I was watching it, but when it got into the corruption etc., I bailed out and didn't finish the film --- too over my head and I lost interest. I would give it a 3 and I found it to be the weakest film of these documentaries that were nominated for an Oscar.
"THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY" 2 hours and 1 min 2019
Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
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