Geoffrey Robertson

Geoffrey Robertson

  • Born: 1946-9-30
  • Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Joana 2022-01-18 08:01:56

      The system has no edges, it is a reciprocating ring

      20190816 "The Edge of Democracy"

      The system has no edges, it is a reciprocating ring

      Shortly before the 2018 Brazil presidential election, I was in Salvador in the northeast of Brazil. In the elevator of the hotel, an unknown boy said to us: "Remember to vote for Bolsonaro!" His parents pulled him...

    • Gayle 2022-01-18 08:01:56

      Show your position

      How can political documentaries be shot like this? It's not a promotional video. How can you show your position when you come up?

      It must be rational, neutral, and objective, even if it’s pretended to be at the front and fangs at the back. How can you clearly say that you stand on the left and find...

    • Eunice 2022-03-26 09:01:12

      The 20200328 film outlines the dilemma of South America and the world as a whole—the rise of the right wing as a whole, and how a once-democratic political force that opposed monopoly and represented the people inevitably fell victim to gold-dollar politics. The author does not shy away from his own position. His parents, grandfather of the construction giant, and his family are also the epitome of Brazilian history. The first overhead shot of the Brasilia Congress was amazing, and Rousseff's photo in the courtroom was really a gamble for history - those police officers, they knew that when they faced the camera, they were actually facing history. Also, the director's mother is so beautiful!

    • Dayne 2022-04-23 07:04:01

      The information is rich, and the skill of organizing information is also profound, which is worth a second brush.

    The Edge of Democracy quotes

    • Petra Costa: The fact that there is no evidence that he's the owner of the apartment is considered proof of his attempt to hide it, and this proof is used as evidence that he's the mastermind of the scheme.

    • Petra Costa: The fact is that, during the years that my parents were in hiding, when their friends were being tortured and killed, were the years that the construction company my grandfather co-founded... most grew. I see that the story of this crisis, of this wall, runs directly through my family. On one side it's the story of the establishment that my grandparents were part of. On the other, it's the story of my parents and the left they dreamt of, and which is crumbling. But it's also the story of a broken country that we're inheriting.