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Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us
We've had decades of movies about fascism, but "I'm Still Here" demonstrates that they now hit home in a newly chilling way.
One of them was “I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles’ acclaimed true-life drama, set in Brazil in 1970, about a family whose exuberant and loving existence falls off a cliff when the father, Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), is taken in for police questioning by the country’s military dictatorship. If you’re a film buff, a cinephile, or whatever you want to call it, you’ve gorged on every kind of movie: old and new, Hollywood and independent, American and international, comedy and romance and Western and musical and noir, dramas of war and action and revenge. I think one of the greatest movies of our time is Philip Kaufman’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” because it’s a drama of such passionate ordinary people caught up in a political nightmare.
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