The Fall
1976 · 106 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 156 VOTES · DIR. Nelson Xavier, Ruy Guerra
Overview
An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.
Dialogue Timeline — 920 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:04 We ain’t stealing. We’re working!
00:13:49 Should’ve taken him to the hospital.
00:21:12 - It’s over... - Already?
00:23:40 Almost gone! $300! What a mess!
00:25:41 They didn’t register the worker. We’re not to blame.
00:28:51 ...and tie the feet too.
00:31:36 What ya want? The man’s dead.
00:37:52 Even if he does, do you think he’ll say what he pleases?
00:41:17 And insurance for work accidents, equal to ten minimum wages.
00:44:17 I’ve been watchman, truck driver... car keeper...
00:48:58 But they do.
00:55:08 I’m from Ceará. Live here for twenty years. I’m servant.
00:59:22 Who?
01:02:17 more money, but the time it takes! The time! That’s the problem.
01:06:06 The lawyers asked him to solve something, and he’s doing so.
01:08:08 The whole time, you’re always deciding everything!
01:10:28 You’re a piece of shit.
01:15:04 ...‘cause he had an accident and now it’s said he was run over.
01:17:06 - Did they come here? - Yes.
01:23:34 - Will you have a seat? - The indemnity...
01:27:46 ...of anything related to the matter. - Forbade?
01:30:30 ...and no-one would win. No, we’ve lost, but keep the heads up in a fight...
01:38:34 What’s happening?
10:00:00 Now, you must sign this.