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Q1336886
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
Choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the words from the text is correct.
The word “long” in “have long known” (line 18)
refers to the length of bathrooms.
Q1336885
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
Choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the words from the text is correct.
The modal verb “should” in “...showers and baths
should be looked at.” (lines 14-15) expresses
uncertainty.
Q1336884
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
Choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the words from the text is correct.
The forms underlined in “...substances in water
supplies that have come...” (lines 5-6) and
“...pollution control officials had previously
assumed...” (lines 25-26) are used in English to talk
about actions that happened at a specific time in the
past.
Q1336883
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
Choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the words from the text is correct.
In spite of having different suffixes, the words
“growth” (line 2), “researchers” (line 5) and
“prescription” (line 6) are all nouns in English.
Q1336882
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
Choose the alternative(s) in which the information about the words from the text is correct.
The expression “due to” (line 2) is the same as
“because of”.
Q1336881
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
According to the text, new research
has found a close relationship between the number of
baths and skin health.
Q1336880
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
According to the text, new research
has confirmed that waste from lavatories pollutes the
environment.
Q1336879
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
According to the text, new research
suggests products used when having a shower are
pollutant.
Q1336878
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
According to the text, new research
has compared the quality of water in American cities now and in the past.
Q1336877
Inglês
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Daily baths and showers polluting the environment
Richard Alleyne
Available:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7513258/Daily-baths-and-showers-polluting-the-environment.html>. [31/03/2010].
According to the text, new research
has helped shampoo factories to improve their products.
has helped shampoo factories to improve their products.
Q1336784
Inglês
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CARA, Alessia. Scars to your beautiful. Disponível em: <https://www.google.com.br/ search?q=Scars+to+your+beautiful+lyrics&rlz>. Acesso em: nov. 2018.
As for the girl of the song, the songwriter
Q1336783
Inglês
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CARA, Alessia. Scars to your beautiful. Disponível em: <https://www.google.com.br/ search?q=Scars+to+your+beautiful+lyrics&rlz>. Acesso em: nov. 2018.
The only statement that is not true about the girl profiled in
this song is that she
Q1336782
Inglês
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Rather than a stable set of features, physical
beauty is an ever-morphing construct. But female
beauty ideals tend nevertheless to have outlines.
These have been most visible throughout history in
the pictures drawn by those self-elected gods we call
artists. History provides us a record, and from it one
basic truth stands out: the ideals women are asked
to embody, regardless of culture or continent, have
been hammered out almost exclusively by men.
Consider, for instance, the ways that figure
shaping has altered over the centuries. Some 150
years ago, women in Europe began wearing bustles
beneath their dresses that greatly enlarged the
profile of their buttocks. More recently, the notion
of sculpting has been applied directly to the body. In
the 1960s, it took the form of dieting, which produced
the sort of extremely skinny figure we associate with
such models as Twiggy. Her thinness connoted
vitality, an escape from the matronhood idealized
by earlier generations, as well as an innocent,
insouciant sexuality that was not dissimilar to a
Roman-era depiction of the Three Graces.
Consumerism, of which diet fads are certainly
a part, has significantly expanded the range of
off-the-shelf options for bodily enhancement. In
the 1980s and ’90s, women frequently turned to
surgery – breast or buttocks augmentation, nose
jobs – and other non-surgical interventions such as
Botox and tanning.
It’s worth noting that if art holds a mirror up
to culture, it has with rare exception failed to reflect
a manifestation of female beauty of the last decade:
the high-performance, muscled athlete. Popular
magazines like ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”
have made gestures in this direction, by putting
women like Serena Williams on the cover. But, in
large part, art seems not to have taken account
of the fact that the athlete has become a figure of
everyday life, not just a pro.
KUNITZ, Daniel. Disponível em: <www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-art-hasshaped-female-beauty-ideals-history>. Acesso em: nov. 2018. Adaptado.
Considering the figure of athletic women, the text says that
Q1336781
Inglês
Texto associado
Rather than a stable set of features, physical
beauty is an ever-morphing construct. But female
beauty ideals tend nevertheless to have outlines.
These have been most visible throughout history in
the pictures drawn by those self-elected gods we call
artists. History provides us a record, and from it one
basic truth stands out: the ideals women are asked
to embody, regardless of culture or continent, have
been hammered out almost exclusively by men.
Consider, for instance, the ways that figure
shaping has altered over the centuries. Some 150
years ago, women in Europe began wearing bustles
beneath their dresses that greatly enlarged the
profile of their buttocks. More recently, the notion
of sculpting has been applied directly to the body. In
the 1960s, it took the form of dieting, which produced
the sort of extremely skinny figure we associate with
such models as Twiggy. Her thinness connoted
vitality, an escape from the matronhood idealized
by earlier generations, as well as an innocent,
insouciant sexuality that was not dissimilar to a
Roman-era depiction of the Three Graces.
Consumerism, of which diet fads are certainly
a part, has significantly expanded the range of
off-the-shelf options for bodily enhancement. In
the 1980s and ’90s, women frequently turned to
surgery – breast or buttocks augmentation, nose
jobs – and other non-surgical interventions such as
Botox and tanning.
It’s worth noting that if art holds a mirror up
to culture, it has with rare exception failed to reflect
a manifestation of female beauty of the last decade:
the high-performance, muscled athlete. Popular
magazines like ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”
have made gestures in this direction, by putting
women like Serena Williams on the cover. But, in
large part, art seems not to have taken account
of the fact that the athlete has become a figure of
everyday life, not just a pro.
KUNITZ, Daniel. Disponível em: <www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-art-hasshaped-female-beauty-ideals-history>. Acesso em: nov. 2018. Adaptado.
As far as figure shaping has changed over time, the text
says that
Q1336780
Inglês
Texto associado
Rather than a stable set of features, physical
beauty is an ever-morphing construct. But female
beauty ideals tend nevertheless to have outlines.
These have been most visible throughout history in
the pictures drawn by those self-elected gods we call
artists. History provides us a record, and from it one
basic truth stands out: the ideals women are asked
to embody, regardless of culture or continent, have
been hammered out almost exclusively by men.
Consider, for instance, the ways that figure
shaping has altered over the centuries. Some 150
years ago, women in Europe began wearing bustles
beneath their dresses that greatly enlarged the
profile of their buttocks. More recently, the notion
of sculpting has been applied directly to the body. In
the 1960s, it took the form of dieting, which produced
the sort of extremely skinny figure we associate with
such models as Twiggy. Her thinness connoted
vitality, an escape from the matronhood idealized
by earlier generations, as well as an innocent,
insouciant sexuality that was not dissimilar to a
Roman-era depiction of the Three Graces.
Consumerism, of which diet fads are certainly
a part, has significantly expanded the range of
off-the-shelf options for bodily enhancement. In
the 1980s and ’90s, women frequently turned to
surgery – breast or buttocks augmentation, nose
jobs – and other non-surgical interventions such as
Botox and tanning.
It’s worth noting that if art holds a mirror up
to culture, it has with rare exception failed to reflect
a manifestation of female beauty of the last decade:
the high-performance, muscled athlete. Popular
magazines like ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”
have made gestures in this direction, by putting
women like Serena Williams on the cover. But, in
large part, art seems not to have taken account
of the fact that the athlete has become a figure of
everyday life, not just a pro.
KUNITZ, Daniel. Disponível em: <www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-art-hasshaped-female-beauty-ideals-history>. Acesso em: nov. 2018. Adaptado.
According to the text, fill in the blanks with T (True) or F (False).
It’s stated in the text
( ) Standards of feminine physical beauty have changed markedly over time.
( ) Just one type of female beauty has remained unchanged at all times and places.
( ) Some feminine physical features have been praised as universally appealing in all cultures.
( ) In general, images of women have historically followed a pattern set down by men.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
( ) Standards of feminine physical beauty have changed markedly over time.
( ) Just one type of female beauty has remained unchanged at all times and places.
( ) Some feminine physical features have been praised as universally appealing in all cultures.
( ) In general, images of women have historically followed a pattern set down by men.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
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Q1336279
Inglês
Illustration by David Simond
According to the cartoon,
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
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Q1336278
Inglês
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The Boom Is Nigh
Why the coming recovery will hurt like hell.
By Gregg Easterbrook
Home prices keep falling, but productivity is rising fast. GDP
grew 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, yet unemployment remains
stubbornly high. Inflation is nonexistent, while the consumer
confidence index just rose to 55.9 from 53.6—whatever that
means. Can’t make sense of these economic indicators? Don’t worry,
because nobody else can, either.
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.
www.newsweek.com
In the title of the article, the word nigh
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2010 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular |
Q1336277
Inglês
Texto associado
The Boom Is Nigh
Why the coming recovery will hurt like hell.
By Gregg Easterbrook
Home prices keep falling, but productivity is rising fast. GDP
grew 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, yet unemployment remains
stubbornly high. Inflation is nonexistent, while the consumer
confidence index just rose to 55.9 from 53.6—whatever that
means. Can’t make sense of these economic indicators? Don’t worry,
because nobody else can, either.
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.
Here is what you really need to know: a Sonic Boom is coming. It will be caused by globalization. And while globalization may be driving you crazy, it’s just getting started. Thirty years ago, Shenzhen, China, did not exist; today, it has nearly 9 million residents, roughly the same as New York City. In a single generation, it has grown from a village of tarpaper shacks into an important urban center. It has become the world’s fourth-busiest port, busier than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined. Never before has a great city been built so fast, nor a productive economy established from so little.
The international recession that began in 2008 has made the Sonic Boom quieter, but history shows that when a crisis ends, the larger trends in place before the crisis usually resume. Shenzhen represents the larger trend of growth, change, and transformation at unprecedented velocity. Thanks to vast increases in productivity, worldwide economic growth soon will pick up, creating rising prosperity and higher living standards for most people in most nations. The world will be far more interconnected, leading to better and more affordable products, as well as ever better communication among nations.
But there’s a big catch: just as favorable economic and social trends are likely to resume, many problems that have characterized recent decades are likely to get worse, too. Job instability, economic insecurity, a sense of turmoil, the fear that even when things seem good a hammer is about to fall—these are also part of the larger trend. As world economies become ever more linked by computers, job stress will become a 24/7 affair. Frequent shakeups in industries will cause increasing uncertainty. The horizon has never been brighter, but we may not feel particularly happy about it.
www.newsweek.com
The article states that
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2010 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular |
Q1336276
Inglês
Texto associado
Brazil’s presidential biopic
Lula, sanitised
SÃO PAULO
A film for the campaign trail
ONCE upon a time it was
considered indecent to turn living
people into myths, or even into films,
with too much haste. The cycle
seems to be shorter now. Gandhi
had to wait until 34 years after
his death before he appeared on
cinema screens around the world.
George Bush junior, by contrast,
was the victim of an Oliver Stone
biopic during the last year of his
presidency. Now a Brazilian director,
Fábio Barreto, has done the same for Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva, as he starts his final year of office.
“Lula, Son of Brazil” is the tale of a poor boy made good, his flaws
left on the cutting table and his virtues in close-up. Since Lula hopes to
secure the election of his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, in October,
it is controversial. The film “promotes the worship of a political myth,” said Eugênio Bucci, a critic and journalism professor. Before it was even
released Veja, a magazine, pointed out that many of the companies that
funded its production (the most expensive in the history of Brazilian
cinema) have either won or hope to win contracts from the government.
For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north-east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence.
The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement.
The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet.
All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy.
For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north-east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence.
The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement.
The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet.
All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy.
www.economist.com
Read the following statements about the text and choose the appropriate
alternative.
I. Not only Fábio Barreto but also Oliver Stone have turned living politicians into myths. II. Dilma Rousseff will surely benefit from the release of the movie. III. An incident that took place in a factory is depicted differently from the way it really happened. IV. The film is about to be available for cell phones next year. V. Until now producers have had no idea of how well the film is doing in the movie theaters.
I. Not only Fábio Barreto but also Oliver Stone have turned living politicians into myths. II. Dilma Rousseff will surely benefit from the release of the movie. III. An incident that took place in a factory is depicted differently from the way it really happened. IV. The film is about to be available for cell phones next year. V. Until now producers have had no idea of how well the film is doing in the movie theaters.
Ano: 2010
Banca:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Órgão:
MACKENZIE
Prova:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - 2010 - MACKENZIE - Vestibular |
Q1336275
Inglês
Texto associado
Brazil’s presidential biopic
Lula, sanitised
SÃO PAULO
A film for the campaign trail
ONCE upon a time it was
considered indecent to turn living
people into myths, or even into films,
with too much haste. The cycle
seems to be shorter now. Gandhi
had to wait until 34 years after
his death before he appeared on
cinema screens around the world.
George Bush junior, by contrast,
was the victim of an Oliver Stone
biopic during the last year of his
presidency. Now a Brazilian director,
Fábio Barreto, has done the same for Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva, as he starts his final year of office.
“Lula, Son of Brazil” is the tale of a poor boy made good, his flaws
left on the cutting table and his virtues in close-up. Since Lula hopes to
secure the election of his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, in October,
it is controversial. The film “promotes the worship of a political myth,” said Eugênio Bucci, a critic and journalism professor. Before it was even
released Veja, a magazine, pointed out that many of the companies that
funded its production (the most expensive in the history of Brazilian
cinema) have either won or hope to win contracts from the government.
For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north-east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence.
The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement.
The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet.
All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy.
For all that, the film is very watchable. It opens in the poor north-east, where Lula was born into a landscape of bright red soil and cacti, and ends with his rise as a metalworkers’ union leader in the industrial belt of São Paulo in the 1970s. This is a candyfloss version of the story, however. Lula’s reverses are shown: the little finger lost to a lathe, the death of his first wife and child in childbirth. But he is too good to be true: a perfect student, perfect husband and political moderate who abhorred violence.
The book on which the film is based, by contrast, quotes Lula as approving of an incident in which a director of a factory that is on strike is thrown out of a window. In the film he runs from the factory appalled. That is a shame. A more nuanced telling would not detract from Lula’s remarkable life story and achievement.
The film is doing well at the box office. Its producers say it is running more strongly in the north-east than in the populous south-east, which means it mirrors Ms Rousseff’s fortunes in the polls. There are plans to show the film on mobile screens in places with no cinema. It may get an airing on television, though there is no such deal in place yet.
All this helps a process of mythmaking around Lula that is already well under way. Catching some of Lula’s stardust is Ms Rousseff’s best hope for capturing the presidency in October, and there are some signs that this is happening. The gap between her and José Serra, her main rival, halved between March and December last year and now stands at 14 points. Competing against a celluloid legend is not easy.
www.economist.com
According to the text, “Lula, Son of Brazil”
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