The Boy and the World

About the film

Identified in the credits as Cuca, the title character is a young stick-figure boy suffers because of the the absence of his father, who, at the decline of agriculture, went to search a jobs to support his family. The kid then decides to leave his isolated and rural community on the edge of the jungle. At the beginning he discovers a fantasy world in the carnivalesque joy of the harvest festival. However, the tone darkens and images become more complex when Cuca’s odyssey takes him to the city, a place ruled by the fascist military-police oppression and the pervasive mass distraction of empty messages on TV and advertising.