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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. At first the idyllic daily life following the rhythm of nature and the development of the kid's identity set the tone of the film. We go along with the boy and his family for six years. Little by little emerges a more complex reality and its contradictions, between modernity and tradition, nature and technology. The arrival of electricity and tourism in the village crystallizes the deconstruction of an idealized paradise, drawing a portrait of contemporary Brazil.
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[VdR '23] Through a small town on the Brazilian coast that only has electricity during the tourist season, a false progress is represented, focused on the distraction of the individual in the face of the traditional coexistence of intimate conversations and reflections of the natural light. There is a process of deconstruction of that idyllic paradise when electricity arrives, but the complexity of a traditional thought also takes shape. Ponta Negra is thus drawn as a space of confrontation between the natural and the artificial, between modernity and tradition.