“The cries of silence”
is a film from the '80s that recounts the experiences of a journalist and his interpreter during the Khmer Rouge regime, in Cambodia, with the performance of a young John Malkovich.
The title, which in its original English is
"The Killing Fields",
alludes to the mass graves where the victims of Pol Pot's genocide ended up.
Anonymous graves,
silenced souls
and a thunderous message that lasts until today.
Silence is sometimes powerful.
Developer.
Grant.
Free.
And create accomplices.
Let's look at the case of Brazil, specifically
the silence of Jair Bolsonaro
.
After four years of loud coup rhetoric, with praise for those "golden times" of the Brazilian dictatorship when "there was no corruption or crime."
After vociferating during the electoral campaign that the elections would be a fraud in favor of Lula, that hell would break loose if he lost and that "only God takes me out of power."
After all that and many other uproarious phrases, it is curious that when Jair Bolsonaro finally lost,
he called himself silent.
Jair Bolsonaro, refugee in the Alvorada Palace, after the presidential elections.
Photo: Evaristo / AFP
“Their silence was
the main spark
that ignited the protests,” Jairo Nicolau, a political scientist at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, told The Washington Post.
Other analysts also point to the silence, but that of the military and that of the barracks, on the day of the attacks.
Was it a demonstration of the loyalty of the Armed Forces to democracy?
No
, it was a reflection of their current "disjointedness", they opined.
more silences
There are
more questioned silences
in these hours.
Across the Atlantic, a striking poster will be seen on the streets of Rome over the weekend.
The
last three Popes
appear in it : the late John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and the current Argentine pontiff, Francisco.
The black and white image, which gives it gravity, is accompanied on one side by the figure of a girl, a 15-year-old teenager, who plays the flute:
Emanuela Orlandi
, the "Vatican girl", as the latest documentary calls her. from Netflix.
A girl disappeared (and never found) in 1983, when she was leaving a music class in Rome a few blocks from the Holy See, where she lived.
What is most striking on that poster is the legend that points to the three Holy Fathers: “Il silenzio li ha resi complici”, in Spanish: “silence has made them accomplices”.
This week, the Vatican announced that it will reopen the investigation into the case, 40 years later.
The poster with the photos of Emanuela Orlandi mysteriously disappeared in 1983 and the three Popes distributed by Pietro Emanuela brother.
look too
lessons unlearned
Laughter in the Chamber
