How great is it to wake at 2 am because you just can't sleep? Maybe it’s the heat (when will this heat wave go away?), or it could be the worries that come with adult life. Who knows…

But since I wasn’t going to rest anymore, I took that moment to look for some Italian singers, with a style that matches my musical preferences (Diana Panton, Carla Bruni, etc) and a voice tone that wouldn’t blast my ears so that I can practice my Italian in a fun way.

The fun part of this nightmare is that I ended up with a movie recommendation: Follemente, di Paolo Genovese. What the movie is about is a mystery to me, but it has Pilar Fogliati in the cast, an Italian actress I’m familiar with, and it seems to be a comedy, something I really need to take I’m Still Here out of my head.

People in Brazil are going crazy with this movie and its political agenda, and the more they speak the less I want to see it - a movie that talks about politics, that’s okay; a movie used to make politics, that I can’t stand.

For now we have the left and the right (ops, sorry, far-right) fighting about it, trying to use the movie to prove their point of view; one says the left sucks and only makes movies about dictatorship and how it affects the middle class of Leblon (a fancy neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro), the other side says everything is censorship and they are all being hunted down by conservatives and their madness.

But why can’t a movie just be what it is: a movie?

No matter why you don’t want to watch I’m Still Here, you are still going to be the wrong one - God forbid you wanting to stay out of political discussions these days, you’ll just be contributing to the current dictatorship of the left, or of the right (sorry again, far-right).

Anne Rios – Brazilian girl writing about Brazilian things

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