
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
1969

1967
Director
Júlio Bressane
Runtime
72 minutes
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The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations.
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Júlio Bressane’s work functions as a powerful subversion of traditional cinematic and social hierarchies. By utilizing a fragmented, non-linear structure, the film rejects the ordered, cohesive morality typical of mainstream Western storytelling. The film's strength lies in its narrative architecture, which uses psychological chaos to critique institutional reliability. It moves away from stable domesticity and traditional leadership, favoring a more radical, subjective experience. However, the film lacks explicit intersectional markers. While it challenges social norms through its avant-garde style, it provides little overt representation regarding LGBTQ+ identities or specific racial agency.

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