<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gabriela</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> takes place in Brazil in a time (1925) of great progress, also known as the neocolonial period, for a lot of Latin American countries. The title character Gabriela comes to the Brazilian town, probably due to “droughts of the arid sertao lands of northeastern Brazil.” (Chasteen 187) She was also uneducated, because in rural Brazil “had almost no rural schools, [and] no more than two people in ten could read.” (Chasteen 191) At this, wealthy landowners were still very much in control of the Brazilian government. As the movie shows, the government was controlled by this landowner oligarchy. The bar owner that she falls in love with is an Italian man who the locals refer to as a Turk. This was apparently not uncommon because foreigners “owned retail businesses all over the continent.” (Chasteen 214) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The movie also depicts a time in Brazil when crimes of passion were apparently running rampant in the streets. (Besse 653) It is believed that this was due to either women winning more rights for themselves and men losing their power over them (656) or the urbanization of Brazil and the breaking down of the traditional family system. (658) An interesting thing not explored in the movie is the fact that women began responding to this violence by becoming violent themselves. (654) The movie showed many scenes showing the newly found freedom that women had gained and were still gaining. One example is the fact that Gabriela runs around town with only a skimpy dress on. Another is when she releases the bird that her husband, the Turk, bought for her from its cage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The perceived violence against in Brazil became so bad that a group of lawyers formed the Brazilian Council on Social Hygiene (CBHS) to combat the violence. (654) The CBHS worked to change the Penal Code, so that it no longer allowed love or honor to be used as excuses for the killing of others. They did finally succeed in 1940. It can be argued now however, “the rising alarm over crimes of passion should be understood as an expression of the larger concern of the Brazilian middle classes - and especially of urban professionals - over the apparent breakdown of social order.” (657) It was the need that men had to keep and control social order that they fought so hard over a thing had only been a rather small issue. This parallels the movie in that the movie begins with a man killing his adulterous wife and ends with him being punished for.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1b1bqwAlmaI/TViXn6MTDtI/AAAAAAAAAA8/6X8kqtFtqy0/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1b1bqwAlmaI/TViXn6MTDtI/AAAAAAAAAA8/6X8kqtFtqy0/s320/photo.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judging Dog judges you. He finds you GUILTY!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The movie is a pretty accurate rendition</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of history. It condensed the 30-year period into an hour and a half, but is still accurate. And filled it with sex, lots and lots of sex.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1378570525637450649-6063711968361601414?l=dcaldwellhistory475.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
