Os Cangaceiros
22nd May 2013, 04:03
I liked this so much that I felt compelled to make a thread about it. It was a "blind watch" on my part but I was surprised at how much I liked it.
It's about a French convict named Papillon (played by Steve McQueen), an individual who escaped from a penal colony in French Guyana. The ending is great:
Papillon floats away from captivity on a raft made of coconuts, laughing about how the system couldn't keep him in captivity, and then a narrator explains how he spent the rest of his life in freedom & outlasted the brutal institution that had tried to break him for many years, which now lies in ruins.
Papillon was simultaneously a really unlucky and a really lucky guy. One minute he's getting beaten up by the authorities, thrown in solitary, starved, tortured etc, and the next he's giving an indigenous South American chief a tattoo and banging the chief's hot daughter. Was that the chief's daughter? Hmm. That whole idyllic scene in the native village was completely unexpected and absurd. Anyway, you should see this movie. It's the perfect blend of action, comedy (the way Steve McQueen says certain lines in this movie was hilarious, and had to have been intentionally comedic) and drama. Good story about someone who the state tried and failed to crush.
It's about a French convict named Papillon (played by Steve McQueen), an individual who escaped from a penal colony in French Guyana. The ending is great:
Papillon floats away from captivity on a raft made of coconuts, laughing about how the system couldn't keep him in captivity, and then a narrator explains how he spent the rest of his life in freedom & outlasted the brutal institution that had tried to break him for many years, which now lies in ruins.
Papillon was simultaneously a really unlucky and a really lucky guy. One minute he's getting beaten up by the authorities, thrown in solitary, starved, tortured etc, and the next he's giving an indigenous South American chief a tattoo and banging the chief's hot daughter. Was that the chief's daughter? Hmm. That whole idyllic scene in the native village was completely unexpected and absurd. Anyway, you should see this movie. It's the perfect blend of action, comedy (the way Steve McQueen says certain lines in this movie was hilarious, and had to have been intentionally comedic) and drama. Good story about someone who the state tried and failed to crush.