Review of Bus 174 (2002) by Reginald R — 13 Feb 2005
[font=Century Gothic][color=royalblue]"Bus 174" is a Brazilian documentary about a hostage crisis in a city bus in Rio de Janeiro in 2000. Several people were held hostage by a street person, Sandro do Nascimento.
The police due to a lack of funding and training do not do a very good job of containing the scene, so the media's cameras get a lot closer to the scene than would normally happen. Luckily, the makers of this excellent documentary, Jose Padilha and Felipe Lacerda, have bigger things on their mind than making a sensationalist film.
By using Nascimento as a sample case study, they examine the precarious state of street people in Brazil and some of their individual histories. The prisons of Brazil are shown to be brutal hellholes but the police hesitate when at the scene of the hostage crisis.
Which goes to show that the police may act a completely different way when there are other people watching them. [/color][/font].
This review of Bus 174 (2002) was written by Reginald R on 13 Feb 2005.
Bus 174 has generally received very positive reviews.
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