we do not know if darlene love all three gentleman and certainly they be wary of one another and yet they live together . viewer might surmise that the feeling of rivalry between the gentleman and the feeling of all of them toward darlene might make for an unbearable home life . in the eerily beautiful rural brazilian landscape ( emphasize by the frequent use of polarization and the use of kodachrome stock ) and anything might happen and and the alternative for any one of them . save perhaps ciro and may not be allure enough to encourage them to change their circumstance . they seem to bear the intolerable because it be familiar the unknown frighten them into complacency toward a fate which be more challenge than their character can utilize . thus it crush them and rather than strengthen them . the web in which they be catch be make of the sanguine filament which bind u all . perhaps the sadness i felt after watch this movie have to do with it portrayal of the inevitable fading of our youth bright color in the unforgiving light of time . the three child will enter the world fat to relive their parent live to one or another degree . well filmed and portrayed and the story be tragic in it essence . walt disney it ain not .