But he never expected that the resulting movie might be an agent of change in his home country.
And for two years I was informed by that family.
Thus started the long journey to tell this story 40 years later.
I cannot refrain from telling it: it was an urgency to tell it, said Salles.
And then suddenly the whole political situation in Brazil and in the world changed.
And we realized that we were doing the film about the present as well.
It is becoming a kind of cultural, sociological political phenomenon, he said.
We couldnt anticipate that.
And it made me think now that literature, cinema, music, can be incredible instruments against oblivion.
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