Não é um documentário! Filme patrocinado pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) para mostrar a sua própria visão e suas narrativas políticas sobre os acontecimentos políticos durante sua permanência no poder executivo. Contém várias distorções históricas bem como inverdades sobre os fatos.

An excellent documentary about the rise and subsequent quashing of the lest in Brazilian politics. If you have ever wondered if there is room in our current political and economic systems for the fairer distribution of resources, this documentary gives you an answer. Yes. It is specific to Brazil but there are lessons for the whole world over. Lula Inacio Da Silva, part of the far left workers movement, rose to the highest office in Brazil. No doubt a very well intentioned man, he set about redistributing wealth and improving the living standards of the poorest in society. It is striking to see how as president the structures he must operate in and the relationships he begins to develop restrict his ability to represent his working class followers. That said the lowest in society do see increases in there standard of living as he holds true to his beliefs. He also launches a crack down on corruption. These good intentions will be his undoing as the investigations he starts are turned on him. The investigators are people embedded in the legal system who are incentivised to maintain the status quo. Along with big business, the media and right wing politicians they launch a campaign to unseat Lula and his successor Dilma Rousseff. They are investigated on campaign finance rules. Even though they are pro workers, they need finance to stay in power. Does this compromise their ideals? Probably. But what is the alternative. Ban campaign financing? Right wing politicians impeach Dilma over budgeting irregularities which seem to be a matter of accounting treatment and not misappropriation. The media launches the case against Lula and whips his right wing detractors into a frenzy. The state solicitor takes a case against Lula and then also convicts him (cause no judge is needed in Brazil) and Lula goes to jail. This all paves the way for Jair Bolsonaro. The establishment hold their noses (much like the US for Trump) and throw their support behind him and he is now president. Although there might be time for a happy ending as since the documentary, Lula has had his conviction quashed and can now run in the next election. This story is told very well in this documentary. The producers have lots of great footage including taped conversations and it is all laid bare. From personal takes highlighting the political divides in society and also families.

Filme de propaganda política, pautada em inverdades.

The sad true story about politics in Brazil.

How did we get to Bolsonaro? In 2020, this is a question on the minds of many political commentators. Edge of Democracy "Democracia em Vertigem" provides a convincing answer to this relevant question. Why did Jair Bolsonaro defeat former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad and become president of Brazil in 2018? Bolsonaro is a strongman. He has been dubbed the "Trump of the Tropics." He is an authoritarian leader who espouses populist, homophobic, and sexist rhetoric. How is it that Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world, elected someone so reactionary and appalling? The easiest answer: Bolsonaro was an imperfect antidote to the endemic corruption that has been so prevalent in Brazil for the past decades. Not long ago, Dilma Rouseff— the first woman to be elected as president in Brazil— was impeached for corruption. Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, another Workers' Party politician, was also arrested. Still other Workers' Party politicians have been mired by one of the biggest political scandals of the 21st Century— Operation Lava Jato (Car Wash). It seems that Brazilians sought out an alternative to this corruption. This is the perfect documentary for outside observers to understand how Brazil got to this point.

Hallucinated fiction

It's an outstanding movie!!

Não há nenhuma expectativa sobre o filme, não consigo nem descrever o filme. Na verdade, não poderia ter sido chamado de filme.

An excellent critique of Brazil's politics.

Incredible images from the backstage of political structure in Brazil, showing how an impeachment can be done using dirt men, not laws.

An insightful, captivating and telling documentary that certainly strengthened my knowledge and beliefs of corrupt governments and their associates. THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY also succeeds at making clear the motivations and benefits behind such immoral and unethical acts. But much like the political state in Brazil, the reception to this film will polarise.

Um documentário espetacular com excelentes imagens, além da ótima direção de Petra Costa mostrou um pouco da realidade brasileira. indicação ao oscar merecida.

This movie is the reason people should watch documentaries. It is easy to read in a newspaper something that happened somewhere else without understanding the significance of that event. Even if you choose to take a side and discuss who was right, it is pretty hard to miss the consequences of everything. In a relatable family story we discover the deep rooted layers of any unstable democracy and the political battle it unfolds. This story make you question the stability of any democracy from the point of view of average person.

Terrible and twisted, trying to sell a one-sided view of Brazilian history that couldn't be further from the truth.

This film does a good job of portraying the series of events that led up to the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. It can be a bit plodding in places, and could have done more to explain both the breadth of corruption in Brazil (including in Lula's party) and the hatred felt by many for the PT, but overall Petra Costa does a great job of explaining modern Brazil to outsiders in two hours. For those who want to learn more, I suggest you start with the audience reviews. Lots of feverish one-line single-starred reviews calling her a liar, a propagandist, a communist. Few take the time to back their hyperbole up with any kinds of further claims, let alone facts. But this is an accurate window into Brazil in 2020, a land of magical thinking, where things are so because you and your friends fervently believe them to be. A land where millions wrap themselves in the flag, and loudly proclaim their love of their country in the abstract while expressing contempt for many of its citizens in the particular. These comments are a fitting accompaniment to the film, as they support its central thesis – that a lot of Brazilians are willing, enthusiastically and impatiently, to swap their fragile democracy for a false promise of order and progress.

terrible full of non-precise facts

Is a fake documentary a documentary? The film was a farce to protect the greatest criminal of all time in Brazil and perhaps the world accused of corruption and money laundering, unanimously condemned by the 8 magistrates of the 3 instances of Brazilian Justice!

Horrível e mentiros, ficção.

Péssimo, sem verdades,.

Sobering portrayal of political corruption and the rise of right-wing extremism in Brazil.