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?
00:23:30 Leonel put the bag in his mouth and she thought it was filth!
00:25:36 - They’ll suspect us. -So what? What can they do?
00:28:02 I’ll take care about the honorary.
00:31:16 - Can’t I talk, either? - No!
00:37:34 The administration is getting mad. Shouldn’t let the guy come in.
00:40:37 Both things are parallel. A moment of distraction.
00:43:33 Didn’t know you worked with him.
00:48:07 your wife you were drinking with him. - Up yours! I’m inviting you over...
00:54:20 - And the interviewee's father-in-law? - What if he refuses?
00:58:29 The company men spoke to me, to leave Zé’s payment paper with me.
01:01:13 Trust me!
01:05:29 - How was it yesterday? - Well. - Yeah?
01:07:26 It’s our problem, I have the right to know, don’t I?
01:09:45 That’s what I have to tell you, what you want to know.
01:14:21 - Medical report? - Yeah.
01:15:57 This makes me laugh.
01:18:48 I’m sorry, Lindalva...
01:25:35 Truth is a philosophical question, not judicial. What I care about...
01:28:51 ...saying they’d pay! The campaign was annoying them...
01:34:33 He was soldier, right? - Impossible...
01:40:47 We were soldiers together, a long time ago...