A Bela América

The first 40 minutes were so promising! I was expecting a smart political comedy of manners, with nice characters and funny dark humor. Then, the movie changed its mood, amd emphasized another path. It still had amusing elements, like the over-innovative cooking and the blind mother and her wigs, but was a little contradictory (about the role of Noémia in Lucas's life, for instance). Indeed, it is hard to decide whether he was more stupid for his behaviour towards Noémia or towards América. There were nice moments, anyway, and I liked the film. However, the last aproximately 20 minutes are frustrating and unacceptable. They simply made clear that the script was lost and not driven by a consistent plot to be developped. It mixed different elements incoherently, and even may be understood as normalizing current fascism instead of being critical. It is a pity.