"IN 1974, TO SHOW THE TRANSAMAZONIC ROAD" "REALISTICALLY WAS VERY DANGEROUS." "ONLY AFTER YEARS OF ENDLESS STRUGGLE" "COULD THIS FILM BE SHOWN IN BRAZIL." "TODAY, "IRACEMA" PRESENTS A PICTURE" "WHICH IS PERHAPS EVEN MORE HARROWING" "THAN IT WAS THEN, WHEN THE ROAD" "SYMBOLIZED THE DREAM OF "GREAT BRAZIL"." "THANK GOD" "And now, Marajoara brings you... one more "Hello,Hinterland"... full of messages,as always." "And now messages from the hinterland." "Attention,Javienses and nearby towns." "Hello,Javienses and nearby towns." "An invitation:" "The Brotherhood of Our Lady of Nazareth invites... local and state authorities, and people in general... for the profane and sacred homage of the Arapixi procession... on the sixth of this month, with Friar Feliciano." "Giving thanks in the name of the administration board..." "Raimundo Barbosa das Neves, chairman." "Hello, Rio Chipaya, Marajó Island." "Message for Rio Chipaya, Marajó." "Please come urgently." "Your husband was taken to the hospital yesterday... for surgery." "Signed,Lucimar M. Silva." "Attention,Jaracuera Grande, in Cambeta." "Message for Dona Ester." "Hello, Dona Ester from Jaracuera Grande, in Cambeta." "Dear wife, I arrived well." "Nice trip, all kids are well, thank God." "Hello, lgarapemirim, Rio Meruaçú." "Hello, Bendita Rodrigues Ferreira." "Hello, Bendita Rodrigues Ferreira." "lgarapemirim, Rio Meruaçú." "Come pick me up tomorrow morning in lgarapemirim." "Signed, Manoel Ferreira, the half-breed." "Hello, Ucuubá Farm." "Message for Feliciano." "Tell him his mother has amputated one leg." "She's out of danger, but she's still at the hospital." "Signed, Sarah Boiosa." "Count this for me, my friend." "Eight plus eight, sixteen." "Sixty-four cruzeiros." "Here's your Cachaça." "I only want two." "No, take all three." "Here's your change." "Saint John's chandlers... the people's choice in the capital and elsewhere." "We got everything for your boat, and the best prices." "And there's more." "We have all kinds of braces and bolts second floor, room G,number 1O." "In the Amazon,it's just one minute to eleven O'clock." "An information from the electronic precision control... of South American Jewelry, where you find... the best watches in the land." "South American Jewelry has just what you need to be elegant." "Come here, boy!" "What 's up?" "How are you doing?" "My name is Sebastião da silva." "But call me "Tião"." "Tião?" "Must be from Bahia." "Are you from Bahia?" "I'm Gaucho." "How are things on the river?" "marvelous." "Yeah?" "Great." "Nature?" "Nature's the mother of us all." "It 's no such thing." "Our mother." "They just want to launch boats." "Having ice cream on the house." "Picking BraziI-nuts." "It 's all right." "That 's bullshit, nature's my truck, nature's the road." "Nature's this wonderful bay..." "That 's bullshit!" "...which fed us all." "But they're so weak!" "They all come to be fed here." "This is a rich land." "That 's bullshit." "brazil's a rich land." "No, but it 'II be someday." "It is a rich land already." "There's only one mother, ours." "Look around." "I don't believe in mother nature." "Your mother's not that only one." "There's another one." "Our greatest mother is the nation." "The brazilian nation which is growing, prospering." "Growing, prospering." "That 's the real mother." "Boy, don't stop." "Come on." "Let 's get on with it, boy." "Come on, Iet 's go!" "Where there's wood, there's money." "That 's my job." "To make money fast." "Knowing the ropes, you're okay here." "Using your head." "Trust me." "Start unloading." "I brought all the logs in one piece." "Not even a splinter missing." "I want the best." "That 's me." "Tião Great brazil." "Trust me." "Hurry up, guys." "I want some pussy tonight." "I did well." "I'II go get more." "I dig your worries about the ecosystem... and over population of the Amazon Region." "The Minister agrees." "So do our investors." "But, you see... this doesn't go against the validity of the project." "Where's the progress?" "We won't cut one tree." "We'II employ 6,OOO people." "immediately." "Imagine how many families will benefit." "Dr. Antonio, you just can't live... in this wonderful region... in this great Amazon universe... and get stuck in mediocrity." "You must think big and go for it." "A competitive electronic industry we can buy from the Japanese." "The Minister grants tax exemption." "The Minister's support!" "Dr. Antonio, we need you on the project." "You, as President, will give great class to our project." "That 's what we are lacking." "And notice one thing:" "It is very important that we start dominating this region." "This is a gold mine to be explored." "Foreigners already do it for other countries... because we're too modest and cautious." "If we don't get in, we'II be passed by." "volkswagen is here with cattle ranches." "It 's our time now." "We're agreed, then." "After the holiday." "See you." "See you." "You offered him too much." "The presidency!" "Eyewash, man." "He'II be fired..." "Okay." "...once we're in business." "vanilla popsicIe!" "JUSTINO, THE CATUABA KING" "He doesn't know what this is." "Do you have dried genitals?" "Yeah." "How much is this amulet?" "2O cruzeiros." "An orange blossom." "Throw this over there." "The small ones too?" "Yes." "How about this big one?" "Two cruzeiros." "How about this one?" "Is this made of shell?" "Yes." "What 's up?" "Hi." "Now... things are improving." "They're building roads now." "An easy outlet for your products." "We're producing." "But to produce..." "load it straight away and ship it, got it?" "That 's what you need roads for." "No good to plant and produce... and pile the stuff up in your yard." "It must move." "That 's why I say that things will improve." "I think that brazil will move ahead now." "You really think so?" "I don't know what 's gonna happen." "AII I know is that it will move ahead." "brazil can only move ahead." "As they say, "There's no holding brazil."" "Right." "And they won't anymore." "You think the way the world is going... you think this will continue?" "I don't care about the world." "Just about brazil." "Right." "brazil's right here." "Here's what I think." "Your life depends on your work." "The government helps building roads, you know?" "Right." "We must." "The taxes you pay." "It 's not even half of what the government spends in roads." "Where'd you be without them?" "Which one brings more profit?" "We don't know the ones that don't." "The ones to make you rich, those I want to know." "asphalt or dirt?" "asphalt and dirt." "But where's the dough?" "Big bucks..." "Which one?" "Dirt." "I won't stay here." "No?" "Where are you going?" "Back home." "Back to Maranhão?" "Where in brazil are the best women?" "Rio Grande do sul." "Rio Grande do sul?" "The gauchas are the prettiest." "Not only because I was born there." "They're prettiest." "I'II just take a leak." "Headquarters, come in!" "Come in, headquarters." "Say something." "The crowd's moving in." "Roger." "Let 's go!" "Now!" "Our people has proclaimed you Queen of the Amazon." "Our people honor you as our powerful patroness." "All generations will proclaim you Queen..." "Patroness, Mother and Protectress." "Us pioneers of the conquest of forests... in an effort of national integration... to make good use of the riches... of this still virgin land... we're overwhelmed by the greatness of this project." "We feel fear in the face of this mystery of nature... never explored before." "Our human hearts quake before the amplitude of the problems... we'll have to face because of our acts... which we must solve from day to day... well into the future, Mother of Nazareth." "Let's all join hands... to achieve all of our ends... and avoid squandering and the menace of instability." "Our victories today, Virgin of Nazareth... are in our humble prayers." "We represent, near your carriage, the crowd lost in the forests." "Santa Maria, pray for us." "I just want to get close to the Virgin!" "Raise the rope!" "José Guilherme and other interviews... by your Jornal Liberal Radio." "Perfect,my dear Raimundo Lima." "Jornal Liberal Radio are now reporting... on the procession of Our Lady of Nazareth." "We'll interview Colonel Douglas Farias." "How's today policing?" "Tell our listeners." "Normal?" "Yes, thank God." "The procession is taking place in perfect order and tranquility." "We're already at the manuel Pinto da silva building." "It 's still 8:55 AM." "Last year, we still were in front of the federal Tax building." "Thanks to God, and to the people... the procession proceeds calmly and in perfect order." "We, who respond for the policing... are deeply grateful for the people's cooperation in the procession." "And to Jornal Liberal Radio forthis opportunity... to speak to this wonderful people." "My people." "Thank you." "Words of Colonel Douglas Farias." "Commander, Military Police of Pará State." "Ladies and gentlemen, families of Pará... here's another show for you:" "The girl with no body, just a head!" "It 's amazing!" "It 's incredible!" "Come and take a look!" "It 's extraordinary, my friends!" "A 16 year-oId girl without a body!" "She's just a head..." "DON'T PUSH" "It's over for those who watched it and it's starting for who didn't!" "Buy your tickets... I did a square samba For you to feel" "Great distances" "Bring great endings I turned the dark street" "No obscenities, please." "I don't speak obscenities." "No way." "Iracema." "Your eyes are red." "There's no way." "My face is wet!" "Let me wipe it." "Wipe it and it 's fine." "Come here." "Count me out." "I got my old man." "I can't." "You can't?" "These chicks are all young whores." "They won't put out." "Sure they will." "AII young whores." "Any one will serve you." "Look, young chicks." "Listen up." "Better than me." "Listen up, I..." "No, I got my old man and I don't want anybody else." "He's on the road." "This week, the great festival of Our Lady of Nazareth." "At Tigre Shoes you can buy great shoes for less." "Tigre Shoes, 7 de Setembro Street, 17O." "Between João Alfredo and 13 de Maio Streets." "I've had it." "Why?" "I can't stand this place any more." "I want out." "Where to?" "I want to go to São paulo." "São paulo." "What does Rio has that 's any better?" "Rio isn't better." "I want to go to São paulo." "You know, last year..." "I hitched a ride and was already in Goiás." "You want so much to go there, but you never will." "I don't know why." "I hitched a ride and when I noticed..." "I was back in shitty BeIém." "Do you know Creusa?" "Yes." "In the district?" "That 's the one." "That girl has been all over brazil." "If she says something, she really does it." "I'II do the same thing." "follow Creusa's advise?" "I wouldn't do that." "I'm not a louse." "But I'II get a ride to São paulo." "Go straight ahead." "Poor dear." "What do you think, Iracema?" "You'II stay here?" "I didn't bury my navel here." "I won't stay here, no way." "You think you'II really make it to São paulo?" "Yeah." "And you'II know about it." "I'II send photos, I'II send..." "You'II see me come and get you." "I'II buy a little car." "I'II be back soon, and I'II take you with me." "I won't go with you." "Baby, traveling's a gas." "You never left here." "Just try, you'II see it 's great." "Then you won't want stay anymore." "I won't stay here." "No way." "But I'II be back to see you." "I'II go, but I'II be back." "I won't stay there either." "I want to travel, look around." "You'II come to a bad end doing that." "Why?" "If Creusa can travel... and UmbeIina, why not me?" "I went the wrong way from Goiás, is all." "So I'm telling you." "Instead of São paulo, you'II stop half way." "You're repeating a story I told you." "I'II go far." "And you?" "You'II stay buried here?" "Did you bury your navel here?" "You know nothing." "Take the magazines." "I'II be in the magazines too." "I'II get into show business, you'II see." "Poor girl." "A buddy of mine was on the road... and he was held up by a guy... and stabbed 28 times." "One should be invulnerable." "Are you?" "Give me a butt." "Do you...?" "Do you live in the district?" "No." "No?" "How come you're here?" "Just visiting." "How old are you?" "Twenty-one." "Why are you laughing?" "Are from around here?" "Yes." "You're lying." "Why?" "How do you know?" "Liar." "How old are you?" "Fifteen." "I knew it." "How?" "Because you're stupid." "Why?" "Nobody lights butts the way you do." "Nor do they ask if one's invulnerable." "NO ONE ESCAPES DESTINY" "There'll be a day" "You'll slowly feel" "We're all human machines" "We're always running" "The engine,of course ls our heart" "The road is time" "And time is a one way street ln parked in a garage" "Called solitude" "hello." "Where did you pick her up, buddy?" "At the procession." "Good hunting this year." "Lots of good chicks?" "That 's none of your business." "Just clean up, or no tip." "Next time, get one for me." "Go get your own." "Get one for me, I'm horny as hell." "A girl like yours." "You'II get no tip." "I'm a man of the road." "I was born for it." "It 's in my blood." "I'm in this route for 6 years." "BeIém-São paulo, São PauIo-BeIém." "Jurema..." "I'm not Jurema, I'm Iracema." "Iracema." "I've been on this road... before it even existed." "There was even danger from Indians." "Scary." "Spotted jaguars scratched the truck." "You're really stupid." "If you want to stay in this business... you must be careful." "Or you won't even make it to..." "How old are you?" "Fifteen." "Or you won't even make it to sixteen." "How much do you get for a lay?" "What?" "How much do you get for a lay?" "Thirty." "Nobody around here makes more than ten." "Of course we do, if you want to." "So you're young." "Say, you get twenty." "Not twenty, thirty!" "How many men a day?" "Three, four." "You're lucky to get one." "Twenty cruzeiros a day." "Not twenty, thirty!" "You pay ten for a bed... and seven for food." "Gotta eat, right?" "Sure." "Three you send your folks." "AII right, twenty." "I'II screwed." "Give me that towel." "You'II make it dirty with your war paint." "Why?" "We all use it." "It 's shit!" "Don't say that!" "And an Indian girl." "I'm not Indian." "So you're white?" "Yes." "Your father's english?" "No, brazilian." "Let they come!" "Got something good for me?" "Sure." "Take your pick." "But you remember how I want it." "Some rotten on top and solid wood inside." "Yes, but..." "Is it the girl?" "talk, she's okay." "It 's not that." "But you know... no solid wood." "It 's forbidden." "You don't want to sell?" "I pay the best price on the road." "In cash." "I can buy anywhere." "No, that 's not it." "I just can't give a receipt for solid wood." "Who wants a receipt?" "Load the truck." "That 'II take time." "I'II wait." "What about me?" "Where do I go?" "She's tired." "Got a cool place for her?" "Sure." "We got some huts she can stay in." "Go on, I'II come later." "My husband went to see life here... and came back for us." "Are you here long?" "Two months." "And is this place any better?" "Not at all." "It 's a living hell." "Why?" "There's no work, nothing?" "No, they have this wood cutting here." "And there's money in it." "But the rest is a disgrace." "I don't know if you understand this." "You can only... buy land that is deeded." "And nobody here knows who owns the land." "people here are all scoundrels." "The more they have, the more they want." "Are you passing through?" "I came in a truck." "The driver told me about this wood job." "I don't know if I'II leave with him." "If we hadn't that money coming, you could take us along." "I can't promise, I don't know if I'II go or if I'II stay right here." "So..." "I went into the bush to get this log, a very heavy one." "How many trips today?" "only one." "only one?" "For this log?" "There's no road." "really?" "We had to open the road and... get go get a heavy log like this one." "How far?" "Very far." "Yes, some five kilometers." "You made the road yourselves?" "Yes, me and my buddy." "But it 's done now." "Thank God." "This was the first one." "There's more to get." "The government 's building roads now." "Yes, but the government roads are not where we need them." "We must enter this jungle, get a log here and there." "We must make so many of the roads ourselves." "It 's a hard-knocked life, but one must eat." "But you make dough?" "No." "In the end we do, but not enough." "Now." "The lady I was staying with ... she said, well, she kind of said it." "Since we're hitting the road, we might take them along." "I wouldn't take them." "Why?" "Even if they had any money." "I want no trouble with others." "Everyone get their chance." "I'm not a saint." "When I have to defend myself, I get my piece and pull the trigger." "I believe that you'II find death, if you look for it." "You're okay, if you don't look for it." "So, do you Iike our hotel here?" "A little." "Where's the sticker of Our Lady we got at the procession?" "The one we got at the procession, woman!" "I'II put it here." "Give it to me." "Let me see." "BRAZIL" " LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT" "NOT EVEN THE FORESTS ARE VIRGIN" "I put a sticker for each girl that stays at the hotel." "This was Our Lady of Nazareth." "Such a nice saint!" "Even gets you a girl." "This one here." "You'II get me in trouble." "I want to know the Transamazonic road key-note of progress I want to see the great forest" "Festively transformed for my brother" "For Brazilians from all over the country" "Time has come for the great start" "Let's pioneer and till the land" "Those who sing can't The time is come" "Brazil, more Brazil for Brazilians" "An orderly people Giving a standing ovation" "The great green forest" "Which is now a theme of love and faith" "Brazil of Floriano, Rondon e Getúlio" "You're the pride of your happy people" "Transamazonic road Valor and faith" "Nobody can hold this country" "The famous Tião!" "They call me Tião Great brazil." "Tião Great brazil?" "You've been all over brazil." "Yes." "And I believe in it." "Right." "I talk about it all the time." "And I talk a Iot, you know?" "So I got this nickname." "But I kind of like it." "really?" "Is this place okay?" "Kind of." "With time, you'II raise a wall here and there..." "We had to get away from the road." "Too much dust." "And there's the road." "We might even have to leave." "The land belongs to the road." "So we'II go farther away." "Right." "We're next." "Okay?" "Right on the ball." "Where are you going?" "You're really good." "I want to hear it snap." "I'II hit right..." "play again." "I hit..." "Let him play again." "play again." "I didn't touch it." "It happens." "play." "Go for it." "Here we are." "Here we are, man." "See we meet here?" "That 's life." "What are you doing in a place like this?" "really roughing it." "Making money." "Take your hat off." "Making money?" "Making money." "Sure." "I measure it on the spot." "Before buying." "But you don't mark it." "Look over there." "When the rich got here there was no road." "They didn't know this place." "They came..." "Just a second." "They came to this place after a Iot had been done." "It 's very hard here." "A poor man buys a piece of land, the rich come and take it away." "They come and use the poor." "That 's it." "They say it belongs to them, and we must go." "false deeds." "false deeds." "So they take over." "Sure." "Even INCRA, I see it myself." "I've been here eight months." "When I arrived... there was some little men." "The INCRA police came... took away his land and gave it to a big shot." "Here." "They took the man away and made him sign the deed." "We can't even get wood." "Can't plant, nothing." "It 's forbidden." "Everything's forbidden here." "The law's the Iaw." "It must be kept." "And, look here." "There's the Iaw but not as you see it." "Must be kept." "You say it 's not kept." "That some farmers buy the Iaw." "But I think these people are very ignorant." "They get no protection, no documents." "If I buy land here, I'II want papers." "Don't you read it on the roads?" ""Don't buy before consulting INCRA"." "Didn't you see the billboards?" "Yes." "I see them, they give good advice." "I see and understand." "You must buy land with documents." "She comes" "When the sun rises at dawn" "Then she leaves" "When the sun sets on the horizon" "It's like a ray of light on the forest" "Carrying the light of a better Brazil" "To faraway places" "Full of wealth and longing for love" "How's that, Mr. Zé?" "Working Sundays?" "What can I do?" "What 's that, a soccer field?" "Here?" "Yeah." "It 's hard work." "And underpaid." "To get ahead, to make things better?" "Gotta work to get ahead." "Ain't that so?" "To make the most of it, right?" "You know, if there was no road this man wouldn't have his land." "Right." "Sure." "The road brings riches and progress for this man." "Or he'd be working for others." "This is very good." "Let 's go." "Get your things." "What for?" "Get your stuff, you're staying." "Where?" "Here." "It 's a good place." "I know the owner." "It 's classy." "In this shitty night club?" "It 's a clean place." "I won't stay in this dump." "Look." "I don't owe you anything." "You did your job, and I gave you a lift." "But you're broke, take it." "Shit, I won't go." "What do you want?" "Romance?" "I won't go anywhere!" "You want me to support you?" "Do you know how much I paid for it?" "14O millions." "5O in cash and 4 every month." "I need at Ieast 1O to make go." "Do you want me to support you?" "Get out, woman!" "I won't get out." "Out, woman!" "She's playing dumb." "What 's got into you?" "It 's a nice, clean place." "What more do you want?" "This fucking shithole?" "I won't get out!" "Don't you want to work, whore?" "Get out, woman!" "Come on, out." "Okay." "Shit!" "Up your ass with this heap!" "Who do I see in this shit?" "It 's your problem, smart ass." "Trust the future." "Lethargy took hold of me" "There was nothing more to say" "Tormented and sad I might think..." "Bye, guys." "Bye." "Come here, gorgeous." "Hi, pilot." "call her." "Iracema." "How are you, baby?" "Everything's okay?" "Come, I want to talk to you." "You wanna talk to us?" "Do you know her?" "No." "Iracema." "Hi, pilot." "How are you?" "Fine." "tell us, pilot." "Do you want to go to a farm with me?" "Whose farm?" "Where, pilot?" "An American's." "American?" "Here?" "No." "It 's far away." "I'II take you on the plane." "You'II be back tomorrow." "I've never flown." "How about you, Iracema?" "Never." "You've been had." "But what are you paying?" "Twenty for each." "pilot..." "You'II be back tomorrow." "You're okay but is not enough." "Okay, thirty then." "Each." "Nor thirty." "We get fifty and you bring us back." "You gotta bring us back here." "We must be back tomorrow." "Is it a Iong walk?" "Iracema..." "let 's go then." "I brought these people for you." "They've been traveling for a month, but they're ready and strong." "Documents?" "Everything's okay." "You can keep their papers." "I got them." "In case there's any problem, you're in the clear." "Are you sure?" "I want no trouble." "They're all clean." "Nobody knows where they are." "They don't know where they are." "They think they're in Mato Grosso." "please, don't leave any pregnant woman." "That 's out of question." "Your price's too high." "1,OOO a head is too much." "Are you joking?" "These people here will work for you 3 or 4 years." "They'II only cost you farina and dry meat." "Do you want to do business?" "It 's an opportunity." "3 or 4 years my ass!" "They'd die of malaria or run off." "They're bad news." "Nothing but trouble." "Just a bunch of simpletons." "What do you say?" "I can sell them to the Jap, if you don't want them." "Leave half of them." "I want good people." "But I still don't like your price." "Nobody has a better price." "They want 1,3OO for an old worker." "That much." "You, you, you, and you, get down." "Get down." "You stay." "You, and you." "Go over there." "You too." "Hey, Gato!" "Do me a favor, leave these women some place." "My pleasure." "Come on!" "You said you'd bring us and take us back by plane!" "But the plane's not leaving." "I won't go by truck." "On that piece of junk?" "On these roads?" "There's nothing I can do." "Don't mess with me or I'II cut you up, you bastard!" "You go in the truck with Gato!" "It come here, it can leave." "See the truck?" "It runs on roads!" "Open this door!" "Come!" "Come, just get down there!" "Bastard!" "I'II cut your face, you son of a bitch!" "Take them!" "Leave me alone, you bastard!" "Let me go!" "Don't mess with me, you bitch!" "sluts!" "To the truck, or you'II get a good beating!" "Son of a bitch!" "Pissing stop." "We'II sleep here." "Tomorrow, I'II take you to a good farm." "Iracema, give me half your razor." "No." "Give me half." "Be a nice girl." "I won't give you." "Give me half." "Do you want to leave me naked?" "They took mine." "Didn't you see?" "Yes, but I won't give you mine." "half." "I'm beaten up." "No." "What will I do, if another guy attack me?" "I've always helped you." "I know." "I do everything for you." "Thanks, but no." "please." "No." "I never thought you'd treat me like this." "Share it." "No!" "You'II be safe, too." "No." "We'II both be safe." "I have nothing!" "I won't give it to you." "Come on, Iracema." "I never thought you'd treat me so." "Sleep, while I protect you" "Over the blue sky's veil" "Dream that I want..." "You bitch, I knew you'd give it to me." "What 's going on now?" "That 's naughty!" "girl meets girl?" "Come on, Teresa." "Wait!" "Wait!" "Come work with me, Iracema." "It 's very good." "Some weeks, I make 16O cruzeiros." "Sometimes more, sometimes less." "It 's good." "You're young... you can learn to work." "You'II make your living at home, in peace." "But I'm too old." "Nonsense, girl!" "That 's not true!" "You can learn and work, you're still a child." "child?" "I'm too old for this job." "God doesn't want me to be a seamstress." "My fate is different, I must roam without direction." "Accept your fate." "Ask for God's help and let 's work." "I have no mind for this needlework." "I can't do it." "I must roam around." "I am patient." "I'II teach you patiently." "carefully." "Maybe God will help you and you'II learn." "For Him, nothing's impossible." "I know that... but I don't think this is for me." "Then that 's your problem." "I'll never forget" "All that you did to me I just hope that one day" "My time will come" "You'll miss me so much" "You'll cry, for I'll be gone" "That's what I'm gonna do" "Without my love" "You won't be..." "NO MINORS ALLOWED IN THE PREMISES" "LOVE NEST" "What 's the matter?" "What did I do?" "Let me go!" "Who's the driver?" "I am." "Hi." "Hi." "How'd you do?" "Fine." "Where are you going?" "To Marabá." "Marabá?" "I want to go to AItamira." "If you want, I'II give you a ride." "You can take a bus there." "really?" "really." "Now?" "But we must sleep in the road." "Yeah." "still coming?" "If I can get to AItamira..." "Sure." "Hop in then." "Great." "Coffee." "Listen, I know you took Antonio, the guy I was with, my man... and you run around with him." "That girl Maria, she told me." "So, what 's going on between you two?" "What do you want?" "pull her panties!" "Tramp!" "slut!" "He's not yours." "Yes, he's mine." "Tramp!" "slut!" "Whore!" "slut!" "Tramp!" "slut!" "Tramp!" "You'II see, bitch." "I'II beat you up again, you tramp!" "If you come back, I'II beat you up!" "Just watch out, you tramp!" "You'II see, slut!" "Come see the girls!" "I'm going to São paulo." "I've never been there." "Now I'm going." "Are you really going?" "Yeah." "Go, blond!" "Why?" "Come on!" "Now?" "bullshit!" "Come here, Iet 's talk." "How are you girls doing?" "Do you have a little booze?" "Go ahead." "It 's true." "My God!" "Where's your shoe, lady?" "She lost it!" "What?" "Where's your shoe?" "Oops!" "Come here, come!" "Are you girls okay?" "Fine." "Turn the engine off!" "Thanks!" "Go play with him." "His wife will kill you!" "She's tough, she'II kill you!" "Tião!" "Why Tião?" "Aren't you Tião Great brazil?" "brazil's Great, and getting greater each day!" "Don't you recognize me?" "Sure, I recognize you." "I recognize you." "I know a Iot of people around here." "I have a Iot of relatives living around here." "Aren't you Jurema?" "Not Jurema, Iracema." "Iracema!" "Iracema, of course!" "Just a minute." "I know!" "The procession, right?" "Yeah." "God, you're so different!" "I almost didn't recognize you." "really?" "Sit down." "Am I pretty or ugly?" "ugly." "ugly?" "Tião!" "The older you get, the better you look." "How are you, kid?" "My God!" "Why are you laughing?" "I'm nervous." "Why?" "Because I've found you." "Where are you going now?" "To Acre." "Acre?" "Yeah." "Show me your teeth." "There's one missing." "It 's all black." "You notice everything." "I remembered you differently." "UgIier or prettier?" "Prettier." "Thank you." "Are your tits still, okay?" "Let me see the rack." "My dear God!" "Never mind." "Where are you going now, Tião?" "She likes showing off!" "To Acre." "Acre?" "Don't go, stay with me." "There's more future in Acre, than here." "Stay with me, Tião!" "On the other side of brazil... there's another ocean, the Pacific, not the atlantic." "In Acre, it 's the way to the Pacific Ocean." "The government will build a port there." "Big ships will go there, Iike in Rio and Santos." "Tião, stay with me." "It 's impossible, woman!" "I have far to go." "I'm taking cattle." "They loose weight on the road." "They don't drink, don't lick salt." "We start with 7 tons, end with 6." "Stay with me!" "I gave her a ride once, now she thinks she own me." "She's bossing me around." "Stay, she won't mess with you." "I have two ladies!" "Stay, she won't mess with you." "Protect me from her!" "Come on!" "Leave him alone!" "How come?" "He's with me now." "But I had him before." "That 's history!" "Let him go!" "That 's history." "Why did you change trucks?" "I got a good price for it." "I made a Iot of money." "Dough is my business." "Give it to me!" "Don't drink it all." "Go brush your teeth." "Looking for my man in my own house!" "This is my house, I had it built." "After..." "Let me talk about the truck." "Go ahead." "I liked my truck." "I really loved it." "Those were good times." "But then it started to betray me stalling on the road." "Didn't leave on second gear." "But it was better than this one." "It 's so ugly!" "A cattle truck." "It doesn't matter." "The old one was for logs." "The wood in the middle of the forest." "It 's hard work." "Sometimes, you must make your own road." "You find cattle near the road." "You pick them, load them and take off." "You're really different, holy shit!" "See how I had him?" "See how I had him?" "She had me, it 's true." "You can take her." "I won't take her." "Wait." "You can take her." "I'II pick you up on the way back." "On the way back, I'II pick you up, okay?" "I don't need it." "I'II just deliver the cattle first." "You won't pick anyone up." "Get the rings ready!" "You won't pick anyone up!" "Wait!" "Stop being stupid!" "Give me 5 cruzeiros!" "Five cruzeiros?" "Why?" "Give me five cruzeiros!" "Asking men for dough, huh, woman?" "Aren't you playing tricks here?" "Yes." "What are you doing here?" "Ridding trucks to places." "Just rides?" "No money?" "No, they don't pay me." "Of course, at the world's asshole." "What are you doing here?" "Get down!" "I'm leaving" "Listen carefully." "If you go far enough, you win in this life." "Pay attention!" "Give me five cruzeiros!" "No way!" "Get in, Iet 's go." "Go fuck yourself!" "only 5 cruzeiros, Tião!" "Up your ass!" "Up yours, you bastard!" "You're the bastard!" "Queer, faggot!" "Get off the road!" "Son of a bitch!" "Shitty thief!" "Fuck you!" "Shitty thief!" "Son of a bitch!" "Son of a bitch!" "Thief!" "You don't like women!" "Faggot!" "You're queer, you son of a bitch!" "Faggot!" "Screw you!" "C APTlONS BY VlDEOLAR"