The film disrupts heteronormativity through a cannibalistic aesthetic. It prioritizes instinct and myth over social mores, presenting fluid sexuality and non-normative gender expressions that challenge rigid cinematic binaries.

Gender hierarchies are subverted through a carnivalesque approach. Characters like Ci disrupt standard tropes of submissive femininity, favoring a chaotic social landscape with more agency-driven roles.

The protagonist's magical transformation from a Black man to a white man serves as a metaphor for Brazilian racial identity. It uses the Antropofagia concept to challenge white-centric hegemony.

The narrative critiques Western institutions like capitalism and organized religion. It replaces European ethical frameworks with a primal, mythic logic that rejects Western modernity and institutional authority.

The film utilizes surrealist elements and mythic transformations, but does not feature characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities as plot devices or subjects of mockery.