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2011 · drama · sports

VIPs

Directed by Toniko Melo1h 35m2011

ElsewhereIMDb6.63k

brisk
cold

Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / sports, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Marcelo leaves his family and moves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where he learns how to fly airplanes by himself watching the pilots. One day, he responds the call of a drug dealer and uses his boss' plane to help the man to transport his cargo. He is hired by the drug lord to work transporting drugs in his airplanes. When he is arrested by the Federal Police, he does not rat his gang and the leader of the cartel gives a large amount of money as a bonus and asks him to leave the gang since he is known by the police. Marcelo uses the money to promote a party in the Carnival of Recife pretending to be the son of the owner of the Gol (a Brazilian air flight company). He lures the high-society, including the television presenter Amaury Jr. Marcelo is arrested again and is sent to prison. During a rebellion, he uses his leadership to present the claims of the prisoners and help to control the situation.

Our read · VIPs (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · sports entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast

Wagner Moura Gisele Fróes Roger Gobeth Arieta Corrêa Norival Rizzo

Where the cast leads

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

actor path

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The shape of VIPs

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a Brazilian true-story drama of a pilot drawn into drug smuggling.”

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonight — Skip if crime consequences and moral gray areas will sour the night.

If VIPs is your film

City of God (2002)

rise in Brazilian crime world

(unless you want aviation focus)

Blow (2001)

drug trade and personal cost

(unless you prefer non US setting)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

charismatic rise and fall in crime

(unless you want serious tone)

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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