Emicida: AmarElo - It's All For Yesterday (É Tudo Pra Ontem) - Netflix, 2020
Must say I got a little frustrated when I realized that it was actually a documentary with excerpts from the show and not the whole show, but turns out that little I knew that the experience of learning about the stories behind the songs (and much more) would make the whole experience ten times better! It’s the history of Brazil. A history of the African-Brazilian people through art, music, politics, and social events. It’s exciting, it’s powerful, it’s sad, it’s shocking, it’s all of that and much more!
Sometimes it’s mindboggling to think about how far we’ve come in so many ways, but how far we still are from being able to live peacefully with our differences of race, genre, class. It feels like if for each year we advance in the future, we are forced to set back many more.
In a strange year where so much happened while we were all forced to stay home, this movie becomes an instant classic, absolutely urgent and necessary!