THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS FILMED IN TEN CONSECUTIVE HOURS
AND TOOK PLACE INSIDE THE PRISON. THE TECHNICAL TEAM
WAS COMPOSED MAINLY OF PRISONERS. THE DIRECTOR PREPARED
THE INMATES TO THE FILM SET THROUGH WORKSHOPS.
About four hundred prisoners. Four galleries, sixteen accomodations.
We were authorized to tape the documentary on November 5th, 2014
from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Eight prisoners took part in the technical staff
Twelve prisoners were interviewed.
"He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want
to be read, but learnt by heart" -Friedrich Nietzsche
Constructivism, Productivity and Cultural Market
"You great star! What would your happiness be, had you not those for whom you shine?
I need hands outstretched to receive it. At my work I want to be, at my day:
but they understand not what are the signs of my
morning, my step—is not for them
the awakening-call.
So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold
even the greatest happiness without envy!
Bless the cup that is about to overflow
that the water may flow golden out of it
and carry everywhere the reflection of your bliss!”
Zarathustra Still Speaks
A film by Luiz Fernando F. Machado
You bet, Moica.
Hey Hulk, you bet Hulk.
-There it is, bro -Is it? Nice
What’s up Piriquito? What’s up, Fábio?
Can the guys come in?
-Can the guys come in? -We’re already organized, you can come in
Yeah? Can we come in?
Hey Jonathan, come over here to give us some support, please.
Fábio right?
Fábio, interview? Eight, right?
What about the extension here? Twenty-nine?
-Here is the light assistant -Here Careca, lighting assistant!
So, you’re going to the place of each one who’s giving the documentary?
Yeah, right, I’m going to ask for them to excuse us, you know?
I am Fábio, I’m from Balneário Camboriú, I’m living in Itajaí, I was raised there
So, I came into this game, into this concrete jungle
Doing time in São Pedro de Alcântara, Caianduba
I learned here, man, with the sadness
With the things that have been happening day-to-day here
We stop to think what we want from life, right?
And as we already know, some day we get arrested
And end up losing everything we have. So, what’s kept inside here, in the heart
Is the sorrow that we go through behind this plate here. That is not easy.
It’s easy to talk about things that happen on the television
But it is difficult to look at people that are inside there, bro
Many troubles happen, man
Both with the food, with the water, that’s what
matters, It’s to stop, look and give it some attention
That’s all we want, man, it’s what I want
I was wrong out there, I used to sell my drugs, I’m paying inside here
But I want to pay fairly, inside the law, inside of what is allowed
Because of everything I’ve been through here, man.. Just pain, just sadness
Yeah, man, here we have to take the best to ourselves, you know?
We always have to keep the good things, the bad things
From that giant gate out there I left buried, man
So I can start a new life. Thank God, I have to thank my wife
For I can see my children growing up from here
If it wasn’t for her, man, I left their side they were one year old
If it wasn’t her I wouldn’t see them growing up
Everybody knows how the system is nowadays, there are lots of people out there, man
that count their money, put on the pocket, they’ve never been through the pain
Then, the moment when the time is passing When they see, they’re already in here
then they’re all tangled. Yeah, man, there are lots of Young boys starting like this
Thinking that it’s easy. Oh! I’m going to count money
I’m going to walk armed. But when it is in a shooting, it’s much more serious
So, then he sees if he’s born for crime or not.
There are people that aren’t born for crime
this is the reality, man. The crime isn’t for you, it isn’t for me
it doesn’t matter. Like me, I always trafficked in my life
The guys that were involved with me came to me
To plan a robbery, it wasn’t for me, my business was
Making money that way there. Three years and seven months of journey
I started doing time there in Caiadura, I’ve done nine months there
then I got the train to come here to São Pedro de Alcântara
so I’ve done two more years there, then as I achieved the goal to semi-open
I’m eight more months here doing time in semi-open here.
And is your lady always coming to visit you?
Thank God, she, always, as far as possible
right, man? Because everything has an expense, right? Her wish
was to be here every week. Well, my message is to tell the young guys that are coming
This youth there, is to get in all these
life experiences here… Pain, sadness, because staying away from
our Family, our children is the worst thing, then when you go through this
is something if you don’t, you won’t wake up to life.
Because these boys don’t need
to fall into a hole As we did, right guys?
So, they should look for the best way to follow. Have well-structured families
put their children in school, because family is the base of everything.
And my friends that live in my place
That helped me a little or a lot, we know Itajaí by heart
But at this moment I saw that they went away
And the few that stayed helped a lot my little warrior.
Many times, man, even to come here
sometimes a fellow passed there to give her fifty reais
a hundred reais and my lady was already with a smile out there
Because after you stop with everything, the need
starts to come, the tribulation, then I have to thank
These people firstly, to God, to my wife and to my family
To these fellows of mine that helped me
-stay here on the rock. -Say them thank you, they’ll see.
I’m going to say thank you to Leonardo, to Pipoca
to Negão, to Padilha, I’m going to say to Belo, to all these people that
helped me here, from my heart, and thank specially Édson
For everything he has done with my family
If it wasn’t for him I believe that other things
would have already happened, and thanks to
all the guys from my neighborhood That helped with what they could
because wherever we go It doesn’t matter what
we are, if you want to know about someone, you just go to the place where he lives.
You will know everything, who the person is, it’s the best way of telling
you go and talk is easy, even parrots speak, the humility is what counts here
and anywhere guys, this world inside here
Is a thing, out there it's totally different
-You bet, guys. -You bet, Clark?
Now inside here, just one more neglected person,
pay attention to the message of this song
life of crime, chair coffin… If you would listen what I want to tell you
in the life of crime it's not easy to survive…
Life is suffering, there’s no flower only thorns
smarten up, brother, and don’t go that way
Capitalism
So once I used to have a good life
A pretty calm life I had my mother
I had my sister and I worked, I studied
At Laércio Caldeira de Andrade there in Campinas
I have already sold popsicles when I was a child, I have already sold bananas
I’ve worked in a potato sticks factory
I’ve worked as a hodman, I built many houses with masons
I used to work, to go to the mall, to buy clothes
I had a girlfriend, I was a man... a normal citizen
It happened that my mom was ran over in BR
A car hit her and two trucks went over her
The highway patrol picked up arms, legs, head, sealed coffin
The highway patrol picked everything up and and took it to the coffin
Then I went to the Itacorubi cemetery, the mortuary made a deal
That I received a compulsory insurance from BR and the insurance
From the car that ran over her, I sold my piece of land and house
In Kobrasol, in Campinas there on Cruz e Souza Street
Where there is Hoffman Market nowadays
And I left the company where I worked with patches of asphalt
In that base there that I received, I got
a hundred thousand reais. It wasn’t a hundred reais, it was a hundred thousand!
I spent everything on drugs, everything on crack.
So this hundred thousand if I had the mind
that I have today, I would have bought a house, a car
I would’ve opened some business for me and I would’ve gone
straight ahead with my life, I ended up in my aunt’s house, I bothered her
in her house, God gave me another family, I lost
a family that was my mother’s and my sister’s
I was given another family, My aunt, my mom’s sister and my cousins
I bothered them in their house, I started doing crack
I started using drugs, I started stealing inside their house
I ended up at her graphic, started working
at her graphic I started bothering them there then I was out
On the streets I started robbing, I met some friends, started dealing
So what happened? It happened that I found myself behind bars
I was in jail. I was just like a dog following its own tail.
It was jail, out! Out, jail!
I was out I had no job opportunity
but I had the opportunity of selling crack, selling drugs
and using drugs home, I had the opportunity of robbing
trafficking, but not of finding a fair job
the system didn’t give me this opportunity
so it happened that I was robbing, I was using drugs
using drugs, It happened that I was going to die, I was going to die
Do you want the eternal life my brother? Leave everything to follow Jesus.
It was never easy, pick up your pieces and go down to the arena.
But I can’t, I’m smoking crack!
Every night I rob, every night I smoke crack!
Then I went to church, I arrived and let’s see if there’s God in this thing there
high on pot. And God was there
And God freed me! Nowadays I don’t smoke anymore
Nowadays I breath air! I wanted to send a hug and a kiss to
my beloved wife. Tell her that God is preparing everything
God is preparing our wedding, God is now giving me a daughter with her
God is opening the door to freedom
To work, I didn’t have a good credit, my credit was bad
God made me have a good credit, I want to leave with my head up from jail
It’s my fourth time out already
I want to find a job with a formal contract
I want to have my life back as a brazilian citizen
As a citizen, that good life that Jesus promissed
And Jesus will give it, I want to be going to the mall
With my wife to have an Ovomaltine, I want to take my son and my mother in law
and my wife to the beach.
A Shout Out to Dionísio
"Why are you frightened? But it is the same with man as with the tree.
The more he seeks to rise into the height and light
the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward
into the dark and deep: into the evil!”
-For me it’s on -You can start talking, you know?
-I’m not gonna ask you anything -Sound!
-Camera! -Sequence one, plan one, take one
Today as... Today we’re making a documentary
My family, we’re not from here, I’m from Foz, I’m an outsider in this place
My place wasn’t very good for me
Many people trying to find me to kill me, so I left there
And came here to seek for a new life. From my generation, the one that is not arrested
is dead, and the one who’s not dead is in a wheelchair
in a hospital, and others died...
-What’s your neighborhood there? -I live in Jardim São Francisco, Chicão
It’s now called Jardim Aliança. I’m single, thank God.
But do you have any children?
I do, I do. I have a girl, she’s ten years old, my girl.
It’s been ten years that I haven't seen her too.
And is she from Foz?
She is from Foz, my girl, she lives with my mom.
-Ah, so she lives with her grandma? -Yeah she lives with my mom
Ah! But she’s home then! What about her mother, does she live there too?
She’s my mom’s neighbor. Look, my article is traffic and 121 (homicide).
The homicide was in 2005 in Balneário, I was convicted for twelve years
The traffic too, I got five years and two months in traffic
In the homicide that happened in 2005 when they arrested me
I was going to work, I used to work
at Hipopótamos in Itajaí as a waiter
They got me in at noon, the fact happened at midnight
I am twenty-nine years old, I’m already nine years in the system
I’m going to ten this year and I regret
some things I did, but some other I don’t regret, not a bit
And the homicide, can we say something about how it was?
The homicide was due a citizen that needed help
And I went there and helped him then I went out to work
As I worked from six pm to five in am
In this meantime between six and five in the morning
He got in my house and took my belongings
Nine months later he died and they said it was me
But it wasn’t, I’m paying for things I didn’t do
Sure.
I wanted to send a message for those people that
are close-minded about us prisoners
Not everything that is on television is true
of what is said about us, to know what’s going on it’s enough
to stay one day inside the jail to see how much we suffer
I intend to stop with crime because this isn’t a life for anybody
This is... Shit, it's sorrow, opression, it lets you down...
doesn’t let you down for life because, about suicide
I think that it’s a cowardly act to do that to myself.
What about the movie? What is this thing? What are you
-thinking about... -This movie here is a... It’s being a great
opportunity for me and for the other prisoners to show a little about us
To show other people so they don’t think that the
Prisoners are there and don’t want to do anything
like on television, that they just smoke pot and others talking
on the phone, but there isn’t! What are we going to do?
Lay down and just watch television? And the movie is being
an opportunity... I am being an assistant diretor
a thing that I’ve never done in my life, this for me is news
this is news, we’re here to pay for our mistakes
we’re almost done paying our mistakes, and we want to go out
to the streets with our heads up and this movie is going to be just a little push
for us to show that we also know how to make different and unbelievable things
Boanova Prelude
because many people don’t believe in our potential.
Awake and hear, you lonesome ones! From the future
come winds with stealthy pinions, and to fine ears
good tidings are proclaimed. Verily, a place of healing shall the earth become!
And already is a new odour diffused around it,
a salvation-bringing odour—and a new hope!
And what you have called the world shall but
be created by you: your reason, your likeness
your will, your love, shall it itself become!
And verily, for your bliss, you discerning ones!
To learn TO LOOK AWAY FROM oneself, is necessary in order to see MANY THINGS.
This hardiness is needed by every mountain-climber.
Before my highest mountain do I stand, and before my longest wandering.
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit
full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous.
You look aloft when you long for exaltation.
And I look downward because I am exalted.
Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted?
He who climbs on the highest mountains, laughs
at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
-You bet? Satisfaction. -Yeah, bro.
Are you from here, Floripa? Where are you from?
No, no, I’m natural from Porto Alegre but I’ve been living
In Blumenau for thirty years. My family, my mommy that passed away now
It’s been a year and two months
I came to know her now, it was recent, in 2006.
I met my mom and I’ve already lost her again.
she died recently, without having the chance to say goodbye
And that’s the way it is, when I was three years old I lived in Floripa
and I was stolen from my mom, me and my sister
My sister from the heart that lives with me there in Blumenau, Cínthia
This week I received the news that she is sick
And my heart is not good, my mommy I had the pleasure to
meet her before she passed away, thank God
My parents of adoption live in Blumenau
Humble family, people that are no from crime, are not related to
The crime is this side, we win, we lose
But until this day I only lost family, the respect of many, and so forth
And vice-versa, because thief, robber, drug dealer
I won’t ever lose this fame, you know?
But I wanted to change this, not me, my heart God knows that it's pure humility
Sincerity and transparency in my words. All my life I was like this.
My children are my joy, soccer players
Future, ability, talent, really wonderful children
God gave me a beautiful family and I, with my ignorance and my stupidity
Ended up breaking it apart, maybe without chances of recovering it
But it’s there, the fruit that I left there are role models, two wonderful children.
I don’t want to be the example as a crime for them
But I want to be an example of father for them
So for my sons I hope all the best
All that I didn’t have... Opportunity, the opportunity to start again
Where am I going to go back? My life today, in this day, I can report
Is my wardrobe, a photo of my ex-lady
In this case a letter... Only one that I have
Where am I going, where am I going, I’m not sure, I have no whereabouts.
I have nowhere to go, I have nothing. I’m going to get out and look for it.
In Which bridge does the Present become the Future?
Wherever I found a living thing, there found I will to power
and even in the will of the servant found I the will to be master
this is the only joy that you can’t deprive me of.
And where there is sacrifice and service and
love-glances, there also is the will to be master.
Loving and perishing: these have rhymed from eternity.
Will to love: that is to be ready also for death.
On what bridge goes the now to the hereafter?
Everything clucks, but who will still stay in the nest and hatch eggs?
“Why? What for? How? When?" Is it not folly to be living still?
See just how the state swallows and chews and rechews them!
The thoughts that emerge with feet of wool are the ones who drive the world.
My name is Márcio Ricardo de Amorim Júnior
I’m from Florianópolis, I’m from Ingleses, in the North of the Island
I studied, studied until eighth grade but I started getting involved
I was twelve years old
But getting involved? What do you mean?
I started actually I started robbing
So I started thinking differently too
Because my relatives were drug dealers
Then I wanted to get involved in trafficking, you know?
So I started trafficking when I was twelve
That was normal in my family, I kept trafficking, robbing
Then they killed my father, so my mind was
-Even more disturbed, then i got in deeper. -How old were you?
I was thirteen years old when they killed my father
So I got even deeper, I wasn’t worried about anything else anymore
When I first went to jail I was eighteen
Not to mention when I was underage I had some passages
I’ve done some time when I was underage too
But when I was already of age my first time was when I was eighteen
Which was it?
It was a homicide attempt, a homicide attempt
There in the north of the island
But it was a guy that he was a rapist
He had raped an old lady there next to where I lived
And the old lady was a friend of my mom
-And that's what happened. -And you were sentenced?
Yeah, I was sentenced for a homicide attempt
So what was the sentence for that, are you arrested for a long time, how was it?
My sentence was six years and eight months
They tried to kill you, right?
Yeah they tried to kill me
How was that?
This in fact this was a... I didn’t have anything actually
I don’t kow what happened, if it was something from the past
Or something like that or they kept any kind of sorrow from me
You know? I didn’t even know what was really happening.
So out of nowhere I was in front of my house and there came
A boy that I’ve never seen in my life and started shooting at me
I almost died too, I got shot on my face, I got shot beside my arm that
Is stuck right next to my heart, but thank God they couldn’t take me
I could’ve studied, I was a clever boy, I am, right?
I could’ve studied I could’ve even graduated, who knows?
But everything happened also the fact that I lost my father already
What I mean is that crime doesn’t pay
Crime doesn’t pay and it’s no use, this life isn’t for anybody
Just sorrow...
Chaos
By its own torture it increases its own knowledge—did you know that before?
A poor bed warms me more than a rich one
for I am zealous of my poverty.
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one
to give birth to a dancing star.
I love him who seeks to create beyond himself, and thus succumbs.
Clark is from my place, from Sombrio
I met all your family, your father, a bro
Even that unfortunately he’s not here anymore, but I am
Sure that wherever he is, he’s going to be very proud of the brother
Getting out of here, I am to leave already. Leaving here, I’ll go back to my city
I have Family there, right man, I have some good ideas
To leave and have a Family and try to live life, you know?
I know nothing is easy, many doors close to us, you know?
It would even be a good opportunity for us to be…
I’m not criticizing anyone, not A, not B!
But at least for the authorities, for the governors
To open their minds with society, with communities
Opening their minds and do a job
Like... There's opened a company in Criciúma
A hundred vacancies for a hundred workers. Oh! But there is the semi-open of Criciúma
There are then prisoners of good behavior, let’s
give them an opportunity for them to work
at this company too, with a formal contract, there are lots of people who
want to change, that want an opportunity, because it is even
shamelessness to the society, they come here and say
that they stole ten millions and stay three months prisoners there in semi-open
and go to the streets to work to make twenty one thousand a month, seven thousand
It’s not working, I’m not saying that the guy is guilty
That the other guy is guilty, just that this way
Is not working, they have to find a way
To make it work, because there are lots of good things
Studies, courses for the guys to work, there
are lots of people that want an opportunity
It’s like I said, it doesn’t matter, I arrive
there doing time fourteen years in jail
Ask for a job, either the businessman is going to say
“I’ve already filled your vacancy”
Or it’s going to play a movie in his head “This one is going to kill my son
he’s going to steal everything and he’s going
to leave to the world, this one has no fixing”
Because if you plant just good things, you’ll harvest just good things
If you plant bad things, you’ll harvest bad things
And doing a hard work with the young ones in the communities
Showing the reality of life, you know? It’s not because we were wrong that we are
here behind bars suffering, I know I was wrong, I am paying for my mistakes
That we are going to encourage the young ones to doing the wrong things
Or for that, we know everything is complicated
In the world, everything is, the people are divided
There are many things, many problems to solve
It’s not just inside the system, it’s everything
It’s health, it’s education, everything’s a mess
One robs here, one robs there, one says bad things of others there
It’s not this way, we have to stretch our hands and try to solve
The problem, if each of us do our parts a little
I believe that, Santa Catarina is a rich country
Our people are welcoming, everybody arrives here
Everybody is supported, everybody loves each other
So there are just some more things for us to improve
The governors to give some more attention Not just for the prison system, but for
The needy communities that we see the reality of the media.
Everybody makes mistakes Everybody deserves a chance
Do you want to say thank you here?
Yeah, I want to say a general thank you to the whole
system of Santa Catarina, outside of Santa Catarina, in Brazil and in the world
For the guys not to get discouraged and think about this,
That after the turbulences there will always come better things
And everything will be alright and each one is
going to be with their families on the streets
Each person doing their part, I believe that things are going to get better
And continues always like this, you know?
Strong like this, it is this that give us strength
Here that sometimes are disbelieved of everything
Of society, because sometimes we feel
Very excluded from society
Yes, To Mock the Prison
Tell me, where is that justice which is love with open eyes?
Would that you might invent for me the love that
bears not only all punishment but also all guilt.
No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and
no longer creating! Oh, that great guilt
may ever be far from me!
I walk amongst men as the fragments of the future:
that future which I contemplate.
Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking.
Devise me, then, the justice which acquitteth every one
except the judge!
Where is beauty? Where I MUST WILL
with my whole Will; where I will love
and perish, that an image may not remain merely an image.
Willing emancipates: what does willing itself devise
in order to get free from its tribulation and mock at its prison?
With these preachers of equality will I not be mixed up and confounded.
For thus speaks justice to me: "Men are not equal."
Where is there beauty?
-What’s up Clark? -What’s up?
The thing is, I’m going to talk a little about our everyday
Of my life, a little about the involvement with my life
Let’s say that is the wrong life, criminal, right, brother?
So it’s like this, I was younger, I went to some fellows houses,
Many situations that we’ve been through and that I've seen
Some different situations in their houses
And I kept thinking “why is that in my house there isn’t?”
It was then that, maybe it’s not a reason, but it took me to
the wrong side of life, and the familiar structure didn’t
help me either... but
Why, Nereu?
I was raised by my grandfather and my grandmother and it was a
less structured thing, you don’t have that structure of them
Being there charging you, giving you some discipline, giving you
Something to follow... go to your class... get up, do this, you know?
Then I went in once, twice… I left...
How did this thing start?
The first time I got myself into something wrong like this
In life was when I went to do a breaking-in
At school, we broke in the snack bar of the school to
Eat chips and Biluzitos, when we were younger
I was twelve at the time
Then the principle at the time found out, we were very young
We used to do everything like this, you know how it is
The dude's fumbling, the dude doesn’t…
Then we did it there, but summarizing things fell apart because
The owner of a workshop that was known there by the principle
Caught us on the tracks, he went there and we were there having
An afternoon snack, right?
Then the time passed, then I started getting involved
With some bigger things, I got involved with
A breaking-in, with this, with that
Life is getting more... do you get it?
Then I started to come jail, I got in the first time, got out
Got in the second time, it helped, when the third came the judge held me
Left me in two years
In 2004, 2005, I ended up with some articles 157,
That is armed robbery
Your path I think nobody imposes, you’re the one who makes it
And from the moment you make a mistake that’s it
You have to deal with the consequences, don’t you, man?
Life’s good from a side, but from the other it’s bad, isn’t it?
So everyday we know people that have a good heart
Not everybody thinks about leaving here and taking a wrong path
There are plenty that we see here that want a life change
This walk that I’m tied up now I lost
My mother of blood, the one who put me in the world
Was she in Caçador or in Jaraguá?
No, she was here in Jaraguá, unfortunately she
Caught a disease, the HIV and passed away now in 2008
This same walk in 2013 now I lost
The grandma that raised me, Maria
I was in prison, was in CT in gallery F
So the psychologist called me, it was five o’clock
In the afternoon and said “I have something to tell you”
Then I asked her who had passed away
From my family because to call you at five
O’clock in the afternoon inside a prison, a psychologist
And I hadn't requested any, I didn’t speak to anybody
I didn’t have any request at the fórum to go out
I thought that was strange
When she told me my grandma had passed away
And she is a person for whom I have a huge affection
Grandma passed away now in 2013 and the old man had
Something like a depression, he’s a little bit...
We have a good house there, we have a
Wooden house and he kind of threw himself...
I have my eight-year-old son, Lucas,
I have my grandpa, that we were talking about now
That unfortunately is in a situation
A little bit worse, I have my sister that
Is not there, she is in Paraná
I’ll go after my documents because I have none
I’m going to get a job, I know it’s not easy
Day-to-day, I can’t take... say that today I won’t do this
Anymore... tomorrow I won’t do that anymore
Day-to-day is going to tell us who we are and our atitudes
That we will... isn’t it?
I’m going out, I’m going to get a job
And I’ll take good care of my family
And stay away, right?
Do you want to send a message... maybe to your boy or to your grandpa?
To my son I want to leave a message that his father loves him very much
I told you already son, dad is only doing the agreement here
In the company here where dad said he had a contract until
The end of the year and don’t forget that dad loves you and here’s the deal
On Christmas dad is going to be there with you
Dad loves you, a big kiss to you!
So we can’t cry on our day-to-day right Clark?
Sure
This thing is crazy, right brother?
So this is our life, right?
So, I am Vanderlei, many know me here
as “Ronaldinho”, the situation is this brother
I am natural from Caraquatatuba, interior of São Paulo
North coast, but I grew up in Indaiatuba
My mother is evangelical, as I already
Commented a lot here with brother Neno, and they have always tried to drag me
Because of my mom into the gospel
I started drinking very early, Luiz
Bit by bit I also had a knowledge with the drugs
Until there came my first passage, you got it?
It was in the year, if I’m not mistaken, it was
in 2001, I had recently celebrated my eighteenth birthday
very embarrassing, an overcrowded prison
a prison that was for a hundred prisoners, I believe
that there were more than three hundred, you got?
For me, who had never been through this it was even a shocking scene, brother
So in 2003 was when I had my second passage
I arrived there, I had done almost two years there until I got
My benefits, brother, and I came back to society again in 2005
...and then I dislocated myself from the state of
São Paulo, from Indaiatuba, to this state here
Thinking things would get better, you know, brother?
Unfortunately I only changed states but didn’t change my way of thinking
The situation tightened from this side, tightened from the other side
The way I knew at the moment until then...
I hadn't searched for other ways, brother
It was robbery, brother.
I stayed about six months there in Rio Negrinho
There where my brother and I ended up
Getting involved in a robbery, a robbery where unfortunately a victim came to react
Reacted once and I could get rid of him
Get him off the top of the situation, and the second time
That he came there was nothing else to do, you know?
Unfortunately there was a death in this robbery
And in the sequel of this robbery after about
20 minutes that this tragedy happened there
I ended up taking six shots too from the police, you got?
I was shot four times in the back, one in each leg
It was already late night, it was about 10 pm
And I stayed down with no reactions from my arms and from my legs
and I was running and the officers were shooting, shooting
And I even felt two, three shots and I felt in my back
And I was running and I fell like this so I was already without the movements
of my arms and legs. That was when it came to my mind this
I said I’m crippled. When the police came, they came already over me
Then one commented to the other, said:
“Yeah, let’s end this, right”
At the moment I overheard it and I answered
For the impulse of the moment I said: “You can
end it because I’m already crippled anyway”
But it’s not the way we want it, it's according
to the will of God, and for the mercy of God,
God put his hand over my life and spared it once more, Luiz.
I was recovering and with ten months that I was arrested there
I ran away, brother, even my brother was with me in this getaway
From the state of Bahia I went down to the state of Rio
In the state of Rio my brother went up to the state of Bahia
And I called my relatives and came to know that
He was caught again, this after almost
A year that we had ran away from there
In these two years and a half that I was an outlaw
I got deep into the drugs
I started smoking crack. Coke, I used a lot.
I was already in a very sad situation, you know?
Until I was caught again there in the state of Paraná
Then in the beginning of January they exchanged me
To Mafra because I was an outlaw from there,
from there I tried one more escape because
I had already escaped from that prison there, but it didn’t work out and
They sent me to São Pedro de Alcântara
There were feelings from my adolescence
That I had lost during this time
Between the exit of one prison and another
Those good feelings that I had in my life, those were fading and ended up
being replaced by some bad feelings
you know, brother? There I started to get deep into the writings
Thank God, God blessed me because he sang
My progression, I got out of the closed
Came here to the semi-open
In the month of May I went on my fifth ordinance
And I had been with these brothers, these brothers, I stayed
In community with them, on tuesday I left here
On the same tuesday I went to church, I went there on wednesday,
I went there on Thursday and on Friday, and during the day I worked with them at Ceasa
There in São José near Bela Vista.
There isn’t anything else left for me anymore, there isn’t anything
That would prevent me of compromising with God
Then I came to one of these Brothers
brother Giovane, I said: “brother Giovane, can you prepare my
baptism there, I am going to be making an
alliance with God, my dear!” And thank God, God has been putting a new
feeling in my life, a feeling that I haven’t been
Feeling anymore, you got? And I am very happy,
Luiz, and it’s not just me that is happy
My family is very happy and for sure
Our Lord Jesus Christ there is even happier
You understand, brother? So that's my testimony, my dear
Thank God the work of God was done in my life.
Companions, the creator seeks, not corpses—and not herds or believers either.
Fellow-creators the creator seeks
those who grave new values on new tables.
Well, my name is Bruno Anibal Correia
I was born in Porto Alegre, my whole family is
From Santa Catarina, I've lived here since I was seven
I’ve been in jail for two years, but in this meantime
In these two years that I’m in here, one day when I felt
Really sad, when I saw... I mean, when I didn’t
See a path, right? A boy told me there was a way out
From this abyss that once I got in, drugs issues, death
Everything that involves the crime itself and talked about God’s love
Killing, robbing, destroying, this isn’t right
Nowadays I’m a father I have a daughter that is going to turn two
And with her too I’ve been learning in day-to-day
What are the principles of family, but what makes me really sad
Is to look to these people, look to the ones that are already suffering
With a disgraced life like once mine was
And with their own mistake they didn’t learn or don’t want to learn
Or pretend they didn’t learn, so...
that Bruno from two years ago
that Bruno is gone, so nowadays it's
A new life, everything new, I have to start planting
New things to harvest new things
I lost my mother when I was thirteen years old, I lost my father when I was nineteen
And on top of that there came only problems and in the middle of that
Abyss in which I lived, that closed world, I tried to get out
But I tried in my own way, there has to be a certain preparation
If you don’t get prepared for the day of tomorrow, tomorrow will come
And you’ll see yourself in a tight spot and then, what do I do now?
So I go there and take a gun and I’ll rob
I’ll take a kilo of drug and I’ll sell
Or I’ll start studying and I’ll plan something
And to make it real and I’ll go day after day, right? From faith to faith.
Pedro is from here, aren’t you Pedro?
I’m from Santos but now it has been eleven years that I live here, you know?
In Floripa, so after I came here I started
Getting involved with crime, I started going out to parties
to these places like this and I ended up at São Lucas, you know?
And from São Lucas I went to PLEAT and from PLEAT I went to the streets
And from the streets I stayed four days and I’m here since then, you know?
So my life here in Santa Catarina here in Floripa was just here
Just in prison, unfortunately, you know?
-Zé isn’t from here, right Zé? -No, I’m also not from here
I’m from Paraná, I was raised in São Paulo and I came here, you know?
Navegantes, I live in Navegantes, I’m from Areia Branca
And we’re here in this routine here, unfortunately
we started doing some time but before the system there already
came the difficulties from childhood, nothing that justifies what we’ve done
Difficulty, not that anything has ever been lacking for us
But difficulties as in the family bought this month and it’s
Owing two months, just to maintain itself
nothing has ever been lacking, but then you see.. you think it’s going to be
right trying to get something easier, and that’s the consequence it gives
What was your...
Carrying a firearm, robbery
Nowadays you answer to what here in the semi-open?
-Robbery -Robbery?
-Yeah -And your article here, what is it Pedro?
My article is traffic and 157 (armed robbery)
What was the worst place you’ve been to from all?
-São Pedro -São Pedro?
São Pedro de Alcântara is too hard, It’s pressure from many sides
It’s pressure from the police, It’s pressure of you thinking about your family
It’s pressure that your’re there alone, isolated, It’s pressure that you’re hungry
there are many difficulties that we shouldn’t be going through
but unfortunately...
Each one keeps trying in one’s way, war generates war
Sorrow also turns into war, forgetfulness, you know?
So all these things that are happening on day to day
Not only on the streets, in the system it generates it
It’s up to each one take the good or the bad and choose what he wants
The consequences we, me, you that are here
Everybody know what it is, right? So let’s take advantage of what we want from life
Either the good side or the bad side, each one has the choice
What about you Zé, are you married?
I’m not married, I have my girl too today you know?
I've already been together with someone but... Difficulty, place
You don’t have to bother anyone too, I was the one who looked for it, you know, so...
We’re living life, if we get forgotten yesterday
When we get out there will be a better person than that, and we keep living.
I really wanted to thank you for the opportunity
that you’re giving us here, of showing our reality here
thank everyody that is filming too
Here, the ones who are also learning with us
and all that are present here, and thank our family
for not forgetting us because surely they couldn’t visit us
Didn’t come to visit sometimes, but we
know they’re always there praying for us
Always in our hearts and we are also in theirs, you know?
As we are now here doing a situation
That we never thought we would do in life
I myself never thought that I would do this, you understand?
But with the faith you bring us here
with the support that everybody gave us here, thank God everything ended up right
And we are here doing this for the first time
And there definately will be many because that’s how it happens
Open the doors for us to go through
Show the reality, right?
-Show the reality -Not what is showed on television sometimes
distorcing something, you know?
The message that we have for the society to look for more information
never take conclusions, know the person better
It’s easy to judge the person without knowing him or her, I don't
quote unquote, care about what others think
the people that are by my side knowing me and knowing my value to me
is enough. Take care of the generation, whose generation?
The kids, so take care of your children, give them a good education
To look for a better world for all of us
It’s easy to criticize, judge, I want to see if they are...
not all, but if they are 100%, if they’ve never
made a mistake, everybody once made a mistake
Do you want to send a special message to anyone, Zé?
The message is that I have only to thank my family
that has always been by my side like everybody’s
not because they accept us being in crime, but because they truly love us
And by our side inside this place in the system
Only stays who is, everybody knows, right?
The one’s who stay really like us, really love us
And we keep living, let’s give our families some value
And to the simple things in life that we value today
Even more you know? Because of our sorrow...
Beyond the Man
But one thing is the thought, another thing is the
deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed.
To men I am still something between a fool and a corpse.
Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if you
would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!
I and me are always too earnestly in conversation
how could it be endured, if there were not a friend?
Verily, I learned waiting also, and thoroughly so
but only waiting for MYSELF. And above all did I
learn standing and walking and running and leaping
and climbing and dancing. And this secret spoke life herself unto me:
"Behold," said she, "I am that WHICH MUST EVER SURPASS ITSELF”.
But by my love and hope I conjure to you: cast not away the hero
in your soul! Maintain holy your highest hope!
On the tree of the future build we our nest;
eagles shall bring us lone ones food in their beaks!
Sequence three, plan one, take one.
Well, I come talke about my routine, from day to day
I’m here also working as... helping
learning on the clapperboard
We’re leaving this test that God put on our way.
I want to be telling you about how I got into this...
Like, I got into this easy life, on the first of april
I was invited to throw a birthday party and I arrived there in the house
the woman left the house, her daughter’s water broke, they went to the hospital
she took her daughter to have the baby and asked me to take care of the house
Then I didn’t know that there was something illicit in the house
The police docked in and they brought me
and I’m already six years on this.
São Pedro, Lages, Curitibanos, Rio do Sul
Blumenau, and now I’m at the last stage in Palhoça
What did they get there in the house? Were there many drugs?
They actually got just some drugs, smallest matters
I’ve got a 33 (drug trafficking) and a possession of firearms
-that comes there from the future -Where are you from?
I’m from Blumenau, I’m from there
In our routine there is like a...
-Rule -A rule that we have to follow
We can’t accept many things, since
2000, 2003 to now we don’t accept this anymore
And there isn’t any convict attacking the other
There isn’t any convict raping the other
There isn’t anything that there was then. This bad thing in jail
Nowadays in jail... There isn’t anyone killing the other
There is the rule of crime.
And those things they show on television every time of prisoners raping prisoners?
This is monotony, they do that to make audience, this in fact
Can exist but it’s there in the jails of the
United States there you know? Santa Catarina, in our state
this doesn’t exist. I myself next week I’m waiting for
my charter, thank God. I’m already six years in on this path
on this monotony, every day the same thing...
and sending a message for them to believe us, we’re not monsters
We’re not animals, not everybody thinks about leaving here and
Leave here and kill and rob and kidnap and...
There are people who think about.. from here
I’m going to look for a formal contract
Otherwise I’m not going to end up on the street, I’m going to take care of my Family
Then it’s an effort that everybody is seeing that the
Person wants to change, it was this that I wanted to be
passing to society, for them to be opening a little more their
minds so they don’t think we’re all monsters!
All monsters! There is no such thing
Is each one here a star?
Each one here has a star that shines in a way
Driven Out of Heaven
Are you a new strength and a new authority?
A first motion?
A self-rolling wheel?
Can you also compel stars to revolve around you?
Are you one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke?
You great star! What would your happiness be, had you not those for whom you shine?
I need hands outstretched to receive it. At my work I want to be, at my day
but they understand not what are the signs of my
my morning, my step—is not for them
the awakening-call.
So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold
even the greatest happiness without envy!
Bless the cup that is about to overflow
that the water may flow golden out of it
and carry everywhere the reflection of your bliss!"
Outset
R.e.t feel the verve, It’s not what I mean to say, it’s
what the spirit asks for Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll
Not even I know that I know nothing, Socrates was wrong
To whom it is said cream, be careful not to curd
Who pulls the trigger doesn’t say is going to shoot
The monster gets a move on, who has a dream doesn’t miss a chance
Your revolt is unique, your revenge is private
Refuse idiotic convictions. You are the size of the contradictions you bear
I don’t have your answer, find your way
I light one up… and the street likes it
I betray the world, but I don’t betray myself. I take
down who it takes, but I won’t accept falling down
I’m on my feet flowing, even mute I speak In spite of everything, I’ll live smiling
I was driven out of heaven
Enemies are trophies, babe
Fallen angels are defendants… they are defendants… defendants…
Enemies are…
Rolled one, lit one, sent one to the wind
Everything has happened, it’s a matter of time
The moment is a result of everything you earned, won
Be you against or in favor, got it?
Don’t forget who pays my bills. What you say
doesn’t face me because it doesn’t count
In favor of the opposite, TTK, haunts
Who is from “tudu bom” always gets on with it
We’re fine, we want emotion. Moralists think and have, libertarians feel and are
My sourness is alive, my craziness is my ground
The plenitude is the biggest enemy of evolution
I keep myself on my feet, no religion. But men need faith even to believe in reason
I’m not an atheist, ok? Nor a believer or a Christian
For an avenger, nothing more is inspirer than rejection
They’ve driven me out of heaven Enemies are trophies, babe
Fallen angels are defendants… they are defendants… defendants…
Enemies are…
They’ve driven me out of heaven Enemies are trophies, babe
Fallen angels are defendants… they are defendants… defendants…
Enemies are…