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Onibus 174
Winner of the Charles E. Guggenheim
Emerging Artist Award
Full Frame Documentary Festival, 2003
Reviewed by Allan Maurer
| Onibus 174, directed by Jose Padilha, rails against the system that led a young Brazilian man to step aboard a bus in Rio de Janeiro, June 14, 2000 and terrorize the passengers for four and half hours — all televised. The repetitious macho posturing of the hostage-taker gets tiresome, but gains intensity as it slowly lets us see him as a human being crazed by the way his society marginalized his existence. |
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