The 97th edition of Oscar has come to an end.

Winner of five awards"Enola"become the biggest winner.

But it has also become the Oscars in recent yearsThe most controversial award-winning film.

However, we will not talk about it today, but another one obtainedBest International Film Awardof the film.

It achieved a breakthrough of zero for Brazilian cinema at the Oscars.

The award was presented at a time when it coincided with the Brazilian Carnival, and the cheers of the people on the streets were deafening.

這部電影也成為繼《中央車站》、《上帝之城》後，第三部票房突破400萬美元的巴西電影。

"I'm Still Here"

I'm still here

The film is based on the memoir of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva,Focus on the dark history of the Brazilian military in the 1970s.

Protagonist archetypeYounis PaivaAfter her husband was secretly arrested and killed, she spent 26 years searching for the truth and finally obtaining her husband's death certificate.

The director is known for his Latin American social realist themesWalter Sellers, his films mostly focus on the fate of individuals in historical changes, such as his masterpieces"Central Station", "Motorcycle Diary", "On the Road"Wait.

(Screenshot of "On the Road")

This film continues his usual humanistic care and documentary style, showingThe struggle and rebirth of individuals and families in the torrent of the times.

1970 years

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Former member of parliament and architectRubens Paiva(Selton Merrow)and wifeEunice(Fernanda Torres)Live in this scenic and desirable city.

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The husband and wife are very affectionate,Together with 5 children.

They live in a beach house where the children spend countless happy hours.

Chasing and playing on the beach, playing a volleyball game to the cheers of the crowd, crossing the streets shirtless only to rush home and ask if your parents can adopt a stray dog.

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Recently, because their eldest daughter was going to study in London, the couple held a party for her.

Everyone enjoyed the food while dancing to the music, and finally took a group photo together on the beach.

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Everyone was smiling happily, but at this timeMilitary vehicles drove in the distance，A hint of unease flashed across Eunice's face.

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Half an hour before the film, Eunice under the camera has beenShe is an image of a middle-class lady who respects her husband and is intellectually elegant.

She is very knowledgeable and can talk to her guests, and she can also make soufflés that will be praised by them.

She is the most powerful backing behind her husband and a gentle mother in the eyes of her children.

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But the changes in her family forced her to stand up at the first time and continue to move forward.

But her soul stopped forever on the day her husband left.

One day in 1971, a group of secret J Cha broke into the house.

They had guns and asked Rubens to come with them......

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Every day on TV, the army is broadcasting pictures of people being arrested.Watching her husband being taken away, Eunice was very uneasy.

But she still pretended to be calm and said goodbye to her husband as calmly as she did when she sent him out to work every day.

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The next day, she and her daughter Elena were also taken away for questioning.

Although violence is not directly depicted in the film,But that kind of horror and hopelessness, spreading through the lens, is even more terrifying.

Since her arrest, Eunice has been moving back and forth between the dimly lit interrogation room and the cell, constantly being asked to identify the so-called "terrorists" and not ask any questions.

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There was no sense of time, and she had to ask the jailer to determine the number of days she had been imprisoned.

After a long torment of 12 days, Eunice was finally released.

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When she got home, she went to see the children as soon as possible to make sure they were safe and sound.

But for the next few days, her husband Rubens never came home.

As a former member of Congress, the news of Rubens' arrest caused quite a stir.

But at this timeZ denied that he had been arrested.

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從1964-1985年，在這21年間，巴西一直處於軍ZF的Du裁統治之下。

Voluntary arrests, torture and assassinations took place during this period.

數萬人遭破害，至少434人死亡或失踪。

Many families have been torn apart as a result.

The film faithfully records this important period of history, as if looking at a family photo album from the Du Cut era in Brazil, behind each photo is about the vicissitudes of a family.

At this point, the second act of the film unfolds, and Eunice begins to search for her husband, whose whereabouts are unknown.

She ran around trying to find someone to testify, but everyone wanted to protect themselves at a time when everyone was in danger.

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There are always people watching at the door of the house, and Eunice doesn't want the children to be affected.Only told them that their father was on a business trip.

She behaved optimistically, always with grace and tenacity in the face of life's great suffering.

Only in the dead of night did she dare to release the loss causedThe helplessness and gloom of love.

On the second day, it was the pillar that supported the family.

She tracks down the truth while letting the children go about their lives as usual.

It is a mother's protection of her child, but also a woman's resistance to violence.

Let them know that no one will be brought down by the might, and no one will be able to destroy their family.

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Even when she later learned that her husband had been persecuted to death, she did not slump, let alone give up the search for the truth.

She wanted to know who caused her husband's death.

There are no hysterical complaints and sensationalism in the whole film, and some are just ordinary families after being persecuted by Z ZhiTenacity and rebirth.

Once the media wanted to take a "family photo" of their father's missing father, asking everyone to be serious and not laugh, Eunice refused this unreasonable request,Instead, he brought everyone to laugh together......

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This is not the story of a family, but of a generation.

And those histories as symbols, after being turned over, what emerges is the flesh and blood of the people and their struggles.

For financial reasons, Eunice and her children changed their jobs and moved.

But she has never given up on finding justice for her husband.

After 25 years of hard fighting, I finally got my husband's death certificate.

Brazil's ZF admits that Rubens Paiva was murdered,有五名軍官對他實施酷刑並致其死亡。

The moment she got the papers, Eunice was relieved.

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She finally regained the truth about her husband's murder in the hands of the country's political violence, and she can finally put herself in the suspension of her husband's death.

In an interview with reporters, Eunice said:"Forcible fabrication of a disappearance is one of the most cruel acts of the state power, because when a person is killed, the soul of the family will be forever wounded."

There is such a scene in the film.

The two youngest children talked about each other when they grew upWhen did you really accept the fact that your father left.

The elder brother replied that it was about a year and a half later when he saw his mother donating his father's clothes.

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The younger sister said that she was probably around the time they were leaving Rio de Janeiro.

The most silent secret in this house, it is so heavy, can only rely on their own comprehension and can not declare it, and in the end only leaves a scar that cannot be healed for a lifetime.

The wheels of history are gently crushed, and a family endures half a century of suffering.

And under the tide of history, Eunice is not only a wave, but also a sampan to protect his family from being overturned by the waves.

She raised 48 children by herself, and after graduating from law at the age of 0,We have always been committed to defending human rights.

He has also served as a consultant to the Federal ZF, the World Bank and the United Nations.

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In 2014, Eunice, who has entered her old age, is quietly sitting in a wheelchair and eating with the children.

At this time, she had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years, but it was still in the back of her mind.

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News about the military cuts was being broadcast on television, telling about the crimes of the military ZF in the years of wanton torture of those arrested.

Looking at the photo of her husband on TV, she subconsciously leaned forward, but all she heard was "the body has not been found".

Her eyes glistened with tears and she slowly lowered her eyelids.

15 years, after 0 years of Alzheimer's disease, Eunice died in São Paulo, Brazil, at the age of 89.

The five officers who killed Rubens Paiva have so far not been arrested or punished.

The title of the film is "I'm Still Here", and another meaning is that I refuse to forget.

Borrowing Eunice's gaze, the trauma of Du's rule on a family is so unforgettable.

She is a wife and a mother, a victim of Z-rule power, and a rebel.

Looking at the real photos shown at the end, Pie couldn't help but burst into tears.

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"I'm Still Here"It is not only a historical archive, but also a warning of how to face the future.

Attachment to history is for a better life, and not daring to excavate, face, and look directly at history will only make the pain envelop and distort from generation to generation.