I watched this movie Corda Bamba (in Portuguese with English subtitles),
directed by Eduardo Goldenstein, in the Brazilian Film Festival 2013 in
Luxembourg. I really loved the movie. The plot of the movie is pretty simple. But
the making of the movie and the imagery is amazing. The story revolves around
the struggle and unhappiness of a little girl to overcome a memory lapse from
her past.
Corda Bamba is a story of a little girl, Maria who was born
and bought up in a small circus. Under forced circumstances, she comes to live
with her grandmother in a city. But, all her life and memories were woven
around the circus. Maria gently rejects the luxurious lifestyle arranged by her
grandmother and prefers to live the way she lived back at the circus. She sets
up a camping tent inside the bedroom and continues to sleep inside it. A few
scenes between her and the little boy with whom she shares the room were cute. During
the day, mostly she spends her time looking out of the window. And that is her
only solace.
Every night, she walks on an imaginary tightrope tied from
her window (reality) to the other facing window (fantasy). On the other side,
she perceives her subconscious or the lapsed memories. This theme has been extraordinarily
portrayed as a dark corridor with colorful doors. Behind each colored door is a
past memory. The memories are about her parents, how her rich grandma didn’t want
her mother to marry a man, her father from circus. But they got married and Maria
was born. Maria was raised in the circus and she too learns to walk the tightrope
like her parents. One instance, when her parents walked the tightrope without
safety nets is the tragic moment of her life where she lost her parents. This
is her lapsed memory she finds behind the last door.
Maria was so much attached to the circus and the past. But
when she remembered the lapsed tragic moment, she finally gathers the courage
and strength to be able to move forward.
Corda Bamba is an excellent film and for those who are
interested in psychological insights. The grief and happiness among the human
minds is allegorically depicted through the image of a sensitive child.
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