Holstra
Boring, long, and too preachy.
WillSushyMedia
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Ortiz
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
jklizano
I have seen this movie about 3 times and I don't seem to tire of it. The storyline, the pace of the movie and the overall acting are quite good. I am now fluent in my Portuguese and was able to totally understand, relate and enjoy this movie. I now have quite a few Brazilian friends (including my beautiful girlfriend Kellen Artenuza) and I must say that this movie shows us a side of the Brazilian culture that we don't get to see often, that being the day-to-day life and the things that "possibly" go through a natives mind.The movie is well balanced; action, love, suspense, drama and comedy. I HIGHLY recommend this flick, EXCELLENT viewing! Javier Lizano Los Angeles, California- USA
whiteutopia
The Man Who Copied is a very strange piece, one of a kind . It's about a poor teenager, Andre who's in love with Silvia, who lives near him. He likes to spy on her sometimes with his telescope. The movie title is about how Andre first photocopies money - but soon it leads to an obsession. He soon gets the girl; Silvia, and with friends Marines and Cardoso, begin a huge plot to get rich in other ways. Andre soon finds out that Silvia's dad, (not biological, according to Silvia), Antunes, is a pervert. Silvia convinced Andre to kill him. They devise a plan together which has a few twists - but in the end, Antunes is dead. The four escape to Rio with a lot of money where they may live happily ever after. Or so it seems .. The Man Who Copied was a comfortable movie with the twist at the end. Some scenes quite surprised me ! It's a great film for to discuss with friends. I give it 7 stars for excellent originality.
movielover-dude
The cinema from Rio Grande Do Sul, a Brazilian State, is considered the third bigger in Brazil. And it grows bigger and bigger each time a film that was shot there is released. I can remember only of two really good ones. One's Carlos Gerbase, director of "Tolerância" (aka Tolerance), which I haven't seen yet. And the other one is this film's director and screenwriter, Jorge Furtado, a guy in his forties whose mind seems even younger. After a huge collection of short films, he made his first feature, "Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões" (aka Two Summers), in 2002. That was a good, quick and nice-looking. And then he makes this second one.The proportions of this "O Homem Que Copiava" (aka The Man Who Copied) are a hundred times bigger than Furtado's first feature. Starting by the main situation. André (Lázaro Ramos) is eighteen and a photocopier operator in Porto Alegre (capital of Rio Grande do Sul) who lives in a tiny condo with his mother (whose face is never clearly seen). He shares the house expenses with her. After this sharing, a miserable quantity of money is left for him to spend. When the movie starts, he already has a binocular, for which he saved money for a long time. With this binocular, he spies the activities of other people who live in other apartments nearby his.In one of these apartment, lives Silvia (Leandra Leal), same age as André. She lives with an older man (who's probably her father or something like that). As the endless narration goes by, he'll find out he needs R$ 38 to win Silvia's heart. As the movie continues, we're introduced to Marinês (Luana Piovani), a co-worker of André's, and Cardoso (Pedro Cardoso), Marinês's friend that becomes a very good friend of André's. And that's the main cast. But the story really begins when André copies a fifty bucks note at his job. And through this, several (criminal--and funny) situations develop as the movie runs.All the four main actors aren't from Rio Grande do Sul. And Rio Grande do Sul's accent is one of Brazilian's most difficult ones. This was clearly a problem. Well, that and the duration of the movie are the only problems. Everyone is awesome. Lázaro Ramos's André is a very shy guy, but not dumb, that just wants to marry the girl loves. I've gotta say that Lázaro Ramos's accent is ridiculous--causing laughter sometimes. Leandra Leal is doing a perfect job as Sílvia, a girl that dreams of going to Rio De Janeiro and meet a guy who was a very good friend of her mother's--and that might be her father. Her accent is the one who seems more natural. Luana Piovani as Marinês is very funny, doing a very sexy (one of my favorite scenes is when André's narration describes her and they have a dialog about and ex-boyfriend of hers) and bitch-like character that--you'll laugh at this--is virgin. And the guy that wants to change her sexual condition is Cardoso. I suspect that this character was specially written for Pedro Cardoso (such as Paulo José's that's called Paulo). Pedro Cardoso is the best on-screen artist, doing a very comic performance and giving a damn about the accent, because he's the only one that doesn't tries to use it.The screenplay is very well-written and the dialogs are brilliantly thought and spoken. The acting isn't superb, but it's close. The cinematography is "nothing-new". The art direction is OK. The editing made me remember--don't know why--made me remember of Sally Menke's style. I mean, it's really good, very precise. But, the greatest thing in the movie, is the directing. Jorge Furtado conducted the actors in very nice way and the various formats used throughout the movie are original. Only one thing in the screenplay is the surprise in the end of the film. It seemed a little lot unnatural. But, forgetting that, it's okay and it's funny and it's a very good movie. Really.
Fafa Says
'Money is only paper that people believe is worth something. If nobody believes it, it's useless,' says Andre, a young man who works as a paper copier in a store but really wants to work as a cartoonist. Too bad that everyone believes that money is a very useful piece of paper. Andre doesn't make enough money. His paycheck is low and he struggles with his meager budget, which allows him to buy and do very little. Everyday, he thinks of different ways to make money. The need of money can make a person do some desperate things and Andre becomes desperate when he meets the girl of his dreams. He needs money to spend on her. His desperation leads him to make some very questionable choices.Andre's character is so likable that I couldn't help but cheer him on to succeed in his dreams. I hoped that he would not get in trouble or hurt. The people around him like his girlfriend Sylvia, his co-worker Marinez, and her friend Cardoso are all appealing characters to watch. This is a fun movie to watch with interesting twists and turns to the very end. It's a good story with a good ending.
