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...power and privilege") through 31,500 miles and 350 speeches, stubbornly predicting his own victory. Gamblers made Dewey an 18-to-1 favorite; some pollsters were so certain of the outcome that they stopped sampling as early as September. But Truman attracted large and noisy crowds ("Give 'em hell, Harry"). He won, mainly because of a revolt among Midwest farmers, who were angry at the Republican Congress and turned off by Dewey's cool gentility...
Rocha explores these essential contradictions, which come closer to treating the surfaces of material life than any of those explored by Marxist-intellectuals in the oppressor culture. He stands at the center, the crossroads of neo-colonialist contradictions, and in Terra em Transe (Land in Angitish) he approaches them dialectically, attempting a mediation between Brazil's political realities and the poetic violence, the spiritual energies of an oppressed people. There are both concrete and at the same time surreal situations, like all the other sounds and images of the film. The hero Paulo Martins embodies all of the central dialectical...
...masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood of the innocent" (he kills babies) and to reunite the entities of the earth and the sea. In Terra em Transe the mysticism shifts to the realm of political and economic power. The right-wing senator Diaz fulfills a Christian mission "to put hysterical traditions in order, through violence and the love of violence," while the populist governor Vierra professes a metaphysic of the masses ("the blood of the people...
...Terra em Transe is an enormous, complex, and exciting process. It contains not only political elucidation, but also implications for creating a crude and alive revolutionary culture-struggling against the imitations of European perfection as well as the populist paternalism and "simplicity." Rocha strives politically for imperfection, as he said at the Pesera New Cinema Festival in 1968, since "true modern art-ethically, aesthetically, revolutionary-uses a language to oppose the dominating language... to oppose through the impure aggressiveness...
...eyes popping out behind a pair of $40 oval tortoise-shell glasses, "What right does that bunch of freeloaders have to take money away from important scholarship going on here?" At the same table, perhaps two chairs down, sits a blonde-haired girl whose freshly laundered Can't Bust 'Em coveralls just don't seem to live with her golden bangles and black Guccis. She listens attentively to tortoise-shell, then turns to a friend and says, "Jesus Christ, what a fucking pig...but...where is Riverside...