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B I M I F FR E V I E WDOCTOR HYPOTHESES A FILM BY VICENTINI GOMEZR E V I E W B Y M A R C E L O C E S A R30"Gravidam" film sceneAN UTOPIA TO REFLECT THE "NEW" WORLDThe Covid19 pandemic has made deep transformations in peopleand consequently in the society in which we live. We have learnedto work indoors, businesses and jobs have been lost, and peoplewith whom we lived have left this world in tragic and strange ways.All of us who survived are changed, there is not a single personwho has not transformed. It has been two years of reflections,changes, adaptations, and a certain turmoil that most of us don'teven want to think about. Sleepless nights and suffering made usface ghosts never thought of before, but life goes on.This is the feeling we get when we watch the Brazilian feature filmDoctor Hypothesis (2020). The film is directed, written, produced,and starred by the remarkable Vicentini Gomez. It's almost anhour and thirty minutes of the film with only Gomez, in a singlescenario loaded with various puppets that will be his interlocutorsand his characters. The director's creative ability to dialogue withhimself and his puppet "guests" is astonishing.As a scriptwriter, the words come out fluently to Gomez. And inthis way, he always sews, sarcastically, with the whole situation westarted to talk about at the beginning of this text. His writing wasinfluenced by Anton Chekhov's play "On The Evils of Tobacco". Thetext brings up the issue that tobacco can cause on your physicaland emotional health. Through the comments of his puppets, thedirector builds a text that covers various issues in ourcontemporary world. Themes like the pandemic, psychology,religion, politics, and society, create a patchwork quilt that is up tothe spectator to make the necessary connections. It is interestinghow he adapts a theatrical text from 1886 to today's events, usingmainly the pandemic situation. The text is loaded withnaughtiness and sex simulation, which brings us to the Freudianquestions that so much fill the malevolence of the Brazilian way ofbeing.The various voices and characters make one believe that Dr.Hypothesis is acting with several personalities, to the point that weclose our eyes and can see these individuals. Hence the importanceof the actor in creating "real" personalities.Vicentini Gomes' experience comes from several works selected by filmand video festivals in Brazil and around the world. This experience makesthe actor/writer/director/producer walk with tranquility through thesmall space in which he " performs" with his puppets.The film has a successful career abroad with awards in various parts ofthe world: Best Film in Venezuela and the United States in 2021, Italy andBrazil in 2022. Meanwhile, Gomes has taken all the awards for best actor,director, and screenwriter in India, Singapore, Italy, and even in Brazil atour BIMIFF.There are several music insertions throughout the film, which are sungby the puppets, which makes the film also a musical, sometimes breakingthe monotony that a "monologue" could produce. I even question myselfwhen I write this because the participation of the puppets is so intensethat you forget there is only one actor in the scene. It is brilliant.About the director:Vicentini Gomes has won awards, such as the Mambembe Award from theMinc (Ministry of Culture of Brazil) and the XXVII International FilmFestival of Bahia. In his filmography, we find other titles such as: “Justiça!Uma História”, “História & Estórias”, “Porto das Monções”, and the seriesshown by TV Cultura/SP: “ConsCiência na Cultura”.Vicentini Gomez is also a member of the UBE - Union of Brazilian Writers.As an actor, he has a long career in TV and theater with performancesthroughout Brazil, Europe, and South America. These are his plays:“Confidências de um Espermatozoide Careca”, “Três Homens Baixos”,“Picardias do Picadeiro” and "Eles Não Usam Black-Tie".Marcelo CesarThe director Vicentini Gomez
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