In 1972, Brazil was in the darkest days of the military dictatorship that had seized power eight years before. Working for Italian television, de Andrade embarked on a re-creation of the Inconfidencia Mineira, the Mineiran Conspiracy, fledgling groups of rebels based in Minas Gerais in the late 18th century who questioned Portuguese colonial authority. The film alternates between scenes of clandestine meetings and later interrogations and even torture a pointed reference to what was happening in Brazil at the time. At the center of these events is Tiradentes (beautifully played by Jose Wilker), a lower class rebel whose defiance of the authorities at his trial would make him a national symbol. Yet the suffering of Tiradentes allows the better-connected upper-class members of the conspiracy to go largely unpunished, another aspect of the story with uncomfortable relevance in the 70s. The Conspirators is living history in the most exciting sense of the term, a look at the past that clearly becomes a mirror for the present.
使用具有强烈戏剧感的手法，现实与超现实并存，尤其是将繁华精致直接置入粗陋污暗中，对比效果显著。针对的是真实历史事件
每个极权都培育出相似的恐惧、为求生被迫无耻。措辞文绉绉对话密集草台班子莎剧般的表象下非常讽刺，燃起巴西独立火种的一次失败革命被呈现为丑态百出甩锅大会，甩得最猛的几人同时还念着他们各自传世的诗歌，而大嘴巴坏事的Tiradentes被捕后倒是唯一不出卖别人的好汉，连演员好像都变得俊美了几分。借古喻今显著，尾段纪念他的国典与切肉蒙太奇又飞大了
In 1972 Brazil was in the darkest days of the military dictatorship that had seized power eight years before. Working for Italian television de Andrade embarked on a re-creation of the Inconfidencia Mineira the Mineiran Conspiracy fledgling groups of rebels ba
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