2002 · documentary · crime · brazilian
Bus 174
Directed by José Padilha1h 58m2002
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
Our read: Bus 174 (2002) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · crime · brazilian entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme documentary / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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- bleak
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