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The Devil wears... Jesus. The devil is called Becky Fischer.
The devil says: "because we have, excuse me, we have the truth". Smiles.
Think in the worst horror movie you´ve ever seen. It´s funny, but at the same time scaring. Picture it.

Rachael is a 9 yo very smart girl that in an typical american teen movie would be the boring and irritating class leader with a lot of potential but a limited mind. Tory, 10 yo, would be the stupid cheerleader dancing in front of the mirror and saying she couldn´t care less about Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan. Me too!, but maybe this is the reason why a ten yo child have so many tears and guilties to scream out. Because listenting to such music as to like Harry Potter is a sin. Levi is 12yo and well, he has no salvation. I´m sure he´s gonna be an "important" pentecostal minister or who knows what. The intrguing about these kids is that they are the "army of God".


Home-schooled, living in a completely evangelical and manipulative environment, where their George Bush voters and fanatic parents teach, among other things, that global warming is only a mith, nothing but a political issue. When most kids go to summer camps, they go to bible camps where they pretend to feel the spirit of God, shacking their whole body and speaking in tongues. It´s as much scaring as Palestine kids with arms in their hands and I truly can´t say which one is the worst. It´s the same type of manupulation, but this "army of God", at least for now, has no fatal ends.

Inspiring!

I have got butterflies in my stomach just imagining how crazily high Philippe Petit was! I got amazed with his determination, courage and concentration.



The documentary itself is pretty good as well. It is a collage of interviews, archive photographs and videos and some scenes recreated in beautiful black and white photography. The only aspect I didn´t like is the way some "characters" are introduced, with that mysterious and dumb face in a mysterious and dumb atmosphere. In spite of it, it is superbe!

José Saramago, Hermeto Pascoal, Wim Wenders, Evgen Bavcar, Agnès Varda, Marjut Rimminen, which work I want to know/explore, and others give their point of view over the vision in this interesting documentary. Rather interesting, but I still miss something.


* A non-real character that could be in Janela da Alma and whom I got fascinated by is Julie Delpy´s character in Two Days in Paris, a photographer that has "small holes on the retina which condemn her to see only one part of the image". The way she shows us her vision problem is fantastic and you can, somehow, feel yourself into it.