Bicho de sete cabeças (2001)

 The odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The marijuana cigarette is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father ...

Brainstorm is the official English title, but a more literal translation of Bicho de sete cabeças would be seven-headed animal. This is a common expression in Brazil used to describe very difficult things. A student, for example, could say that math is a "seven-headed animal", meaning that it is a hard subject. The expression is often used to describe an overreaction. When saying that someone "made a seven-headed animal", the person is in fact saying that this "someone" is seeing big difficulty or problems when they are small or even doesn't exist. In the movie, Neto's father overreacts when sees the cigarret. Instead of trying to solve a small familiar problem, he thought that it was a huge problem that should only be solved with psychiatric intervention. So, it can be said that he made a seven-headed animal.

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