Amusing but confusing with its ultimate message

Quite hard to find some exact message or higher purpose this amusing short film had. "Black Danger" tells the story of a young soccer player considered a great revolution in the world of sports that all soccer fans devoted their time to admire him play but with time due to an injury of which he never recovers, his life begins to spiral down to decadence. Well, that's quite factual if we think about the wide world of sports, it happened time and again.

However, we do not follow the player all that much, rather we follow two helpers of his career: a loud and smart businessman (Antônio Abujamra, hilarious as always) and a lousy barber (Abrahão Farc) who devote their best efforts to help the man or in the case of the barber, he just wants to see the young man scores goal after goal since he's a hardcore soccer fan, but it all goes downhill with time. Maybe Perigo wasn't all that great to start with and people kept seeing what they wanted to see and believe, put their hopes on the man. And there's also some backstory of both men dealing with their lovers and wives, which doesn't add almost anything to the story.

Based on a short story written by great Modernist poet Oswald de Andrade (probably in the early 1920's but the story takes places in the early 1990's), if we are to make an idea about it it reveals that sometimes we shouldn't create great expectations on people who are on the other side of this fame thing, sometimes they can disappoint, or life can throw a challenge at them that it's impossible to recover...and Perigo reveals that even with the "help" coming from the businessman.

Fame is effervescent just as talent, and there are many setbacks and surprises that are simply a matter of fate. Cruel fate but that's life. 7/10.

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The story of a very talented Brazilian soccer player, who played for Flamengo, the most popular team in Rio de Janeiro, but whose free-wheeling spirit prevented fame and fortune.

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