Os Vivos Tambem Choram

Os Vivos Tambam Choram is a fantasy tale. Ze’s dream of a better place is embodied by a cruise ship, enormous and sparkling. A mental image that is out of step with his surroundings, with the industrial port area, with the slum. Ze has the courage to remain faithful to this dream at whatever cost, despite his lack of means, the harshness of his life, the mocking of his colleagues, his wife’s indifference. What is important is for the audience to identify with the character’s loneliness and with his inability to communicate through the permanent chatter that surrounds him. I want people to understand that Ze has a dream. Let’s forget about his motivations, his psyche, the object of his desire; and concentrate on one thing: the universal need to transcend reality with fantasies. Ze. a drunk among drunks, clumsily defends his ideal… But he will leave! With the help of the Ukrainian –a friend with unexpected powers– and an iguana. They aren’t always right the living, the ones that stay. Maybe they know it. Maybe one day it will make them cry. Anyway, this is what I like to think.