Out There in the Dark

043: Bacurau and Revenge Cinema Reimagined


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After the gluttonous excesses of the most recent multi-film and guest host packed episodes Azed and Jay strip the podcast bare and tackle a single film, the Brazilian genre exercise  Bacurau.
When a group of Western tourists with a taste for hunting the "most dangerous game" isolate and surround the small Brazilian village of Bacurau the stage is set for a massacre. But directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles recognize a strength in this tightly knit community that the atomized Westerners lack. The social bonds between the residents have been strengthened as a result of multiple generations having to defend their very lives against violent and exploitative outside forces.
Influenced by numerous Western films like Wake in Fright and filmmakers like John Carpenter and Sergio Leone, the film both draws on and breaks down just about every genre convention it encounters for a vision totally unique to the Global South.
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