“Marighella” hearkens back to the best political films of the 1960s like
Gillo Pontecorvo’s “The Battle of Algiers” and Costa-Gravas’s “State of
Siege”. Set in 1968, it tells the story of Carlos Marighella’s desperate
struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Founder and leader
of /Ação Libertadora Nacional/ (ALN), Marighella was just one of many
revolutionaries in Latin America who broke with the Communist Party to
launch either an urban or rural guerrilla group hoping to emulate the
July 26^th Movement in Cuba. Unlike “The Battle of Algiers,” this story
does not have a happy ending. The film concludes with the Brazilian cops
firing dozens of rounds into Marighella’s body as he sits in the
driver’s seat of a parked VW Beetle. Like Steven Soderbergh’s “Che,” it
is a tragedy about the failure of the revolutionary left in Latin
America to help realize Che’s call for “Two, Three, Many Vietnams.”
There were many embryonic Vietnams but they all aborted. Unlike Cuba or
Vietnam, there was never a social base adequate to the revolutionary
goals. To the credit of director Wagner Moura, this is the overarching
theme of this film that will be of supreme interest to CounterPunch readers.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2021/01/08/marighella/
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