São Paulo, Incorporated
“Anguish and emotion in the big city”
Drama
Carlos is a young man from the São Paulo middle class who works for a big company during a time when foreign automobile industries were settling in Brazil. Shortly after, he accepts a job at a factory that makes automobile parts, where he becomes manager. To a certain extent, he is a family man who works hard, earns well and lives unsatisfied. Without any prospects in his life to change the condition he rejects, his last resort is escaping.
VIBE
A suffocating portrait of urban malaise. The film feels like a slow descent into the grey, monotonous reality of corporate life, where ambition curdles into quiet desperation. It’s a stark, unvarnished look at a soul trapped by circumstance.
melancholiccynicaloppressivedisillusionedslow-burnsocial realismarthousemid-century modernurban alienationcorporate ennuiexistential dreadloss of self
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