All of these elements could theoretically come under much closer scrutiny in the film, but the filmmaker chooses to pass by them as if they hold no true weight. In the film, these interviews are occasionally shown on-screen sharing perspectives informed by their own Blackness, but in other moments, voices from the interviews materialize as the camera shifts its attention to Black bodies that are, despite being part of our social urban fabric, perpetually rendered invisible throughout our history: workers, the homeless population, the impoverished living in the slums, the street artists and so on. In between, supernaturally connected, is adolescence. Or Geni Prado, as found in period records such as film magazines and newspapers from the s and s. But why does Os Raptores operate in this way?
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