丛林怪兽 Macunaíma (1969)

Macunaíma is a crazy surrealistic Brazilian movie while being very entertaining and relatively easy to watch. Fantastic elements are incorporated well to arrive at amusing result in some sequences.
The film opens with the birth of the hero Macunaíma. The “baby”, though, is a full-grown black man while the “mom” is an aged masculine white woman. Macunaíma survives from a great flood. His two brothers and a woman and Macunaíma are forced to migrate to the city. One ...

For those who are wanting the essential background knowledge of Brazil’s past turmoil, chances are one (like this reviewer) may find themselves unable to suffer fools gladly of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s cinematic adaptation of Mário de Andrade’s titular modernist novel.
Macunaima is the son of an indigenous woman who lives in the jungle with her two other sons, the white-skinned Maanape (Arena) and the dark-skinned Jigue (Gonçalves), and Macunaima, first played b...

从DVD的介绍上看到了这个名词。感觉很新鲜，确也十分的契合。想来《黑色奥尔甫斯》也可归为“通俗热带主义”，只是比本片早了十年。


简单来说，电影《马库纳伊玛》是建立在巴西风格的关于人类起源流变归宿的寓言之上的通俗恶俗闹剧大集合。当然暗含批判精神，奇幻手法也是拉美魔幻现实一路。