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This film was reputedly the very first film of the “Cinema Marginal” in Brazil, and the one that was responsible for its name. The Marginal Cinema was a sort of film to represent the life of the society’s forgotten people.

In a slum on the banks of the Tietê River in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a retarded man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation. Some people are going through tragic love affairs. A black woman is in a courtship with an unemployed white man while an obsessive guy chasing after a blond girl. They join themselves in the boat of hell.

Truck-driver turned director Candeias narrated a story that walks the line between the naturalistic and the symbolic, without chronology, full of ellipsis, very few dialogs and bizarre characters and situations.

据说这部电影是巴西“边缘电影”的开山之作，也是该运动名称的来源。边缘电影专门反映被社会遗忘的群体的生活。

在圣保罗的Tietê畔，妓女、皮条客、智障者、残疾人在社会边缘毫无希望地过着他们的平常生活。有些人正经历悲剧性的恋爱，一位黑人女子与一个失业白人纠缠不清，而一个偏执的家伙对一位金发女郎穷追不舍。他们 全都踏上了地狱之舟。

卡车司机改行做导演的Candeias行走在自然主义与象征主义之间，讲述的故事消除了年代感，充满省略手法，对白极少，古怪角色和状况却很多。

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Dec. 13, 2013