though i would hear that cama de gato be the bad brazilian movie of the decade and i watch it give it a chance while after all and first time director or producer or writer alexandre stockler manage to make his debut feature ( shot in video ) for just u $ 4 and 000 and though it look even cheap i can not begin to imagine all he go through to finally get it exhibit in theater with no big sponsor or production company behind it ( then a i watch it i realize why ) . but whatever chance youre ready to give to cama de gato and they shrink to zero within 10 minute represent it an unbelievably preposterous and verbose and ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth a a bunch of spoiled neo nazi hook on bad sex and drug and violence ( and theyre make to look like closeted gay too ) and make with no visible trace of talent and imagination and expertise or notion of structure . visually and aurally and it recall the bad amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it last ninety two ( countem ) minute of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and and it not even funny bad . we have all see the story before represent bore young guy want to have fun and go partying and take drug and everything go wrong there gang rape and spanking and murder and the accidental death ( fall down the staircase . ) of the mother of one of the boy and culminate with the boy decide to burn the corps of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill . moral and literal garbage and get it . the film be heavily influence by larry clark ( especially kid and bully ) and but clark film though also moralist and sexploitative be high class masterworks compare to this crap . i do not think there be ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his idea down the audience throat represent stockler grab u by the collar and try to force his non stop moralist rant into our brain by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb mind with so much babbling and yelling and inept direction and shaky camera and terrible act go on . stockler doesn not care a bit about technique ( the quality of the image and framing and sound recording and soundtrack song and dialog and set and edit and etc be uniformly appal ) and but he a narcissistic control freak represent he anticipate the criticism he bind to get by add subtitle with smartie or cutie comment and and by make the protagonist comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all be ( i could relate to that ) . despite his megalomaniac ambition and stockler seem incapable of give u a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can not even decide if he want gritty realism ( hand hold video camera etc ) or stylization ( repetition of scene and use of alternate take and etc ) . damn and he can not even decide where to put his camera ( there use of subjective camera for the three lead ) . the dialog feature some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever while the plot exist simply to justify the director profound hatred for his character and what they stand for . all you see be a filmmaker be hateful and preachy and condemning and moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent ( or technique ) to go with it . it very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess . certainly one of the most promising young film actor in brazil and with his sleepy eye puppy dog look and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo and blat can be highly effective under good direction ( a in carandiru and lavoura arcaica and proibido proibir ) . here and he tell to go over the top and he have to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equip actor in recent memory . he also enter the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scene ( so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn ) . the film open and end with real interview with typical ( . ) middle class youth stockler want u to take those interview a proof of what he try to preach in fiction . but he blatantly despise and make fun of his interviewee and select a highlight of abject and racist and sexist and stupid statement ( which only show asshole exist everywhere ) . stockler want to prove that brazilian middle class youth be all present or future fascist because theyre middle class and enjoy recreational drug ( be he say all neo fascist be on drug . or that drug potentialize fascist behavior . i couldn not tell ) . with it dogmatic self righteousness and headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom and cama de gato be bad for a 1 and 000 reason but and above all and it harmful in a very insidious manner represent it give detractor of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument . cama de gato be best unwatched and unmentioned and buried and forgotten .