Bacurau (2019)

Film

Meta takes4

Figures

Locations

The flying saucer-shaped drone that surveils the town. → The Invisible Watchtower
The film's setting, the *sertão* (Brazilian backlands). → The Time-Space Crucible

Form & technique

The non-normative social structure of the Bacurau community, including fluid sexuality and gender roles.
The recurring issue of the town's water supply being cut off by a dam controlled by the corrupt mayor, Tony Junior.

Tropes

The film's genre-blending, specifically its use of Western tropes alongside science-fiction and horror elements. → The Cinematic Chimera
The foreign antagonists' "human safari" where they hunt and kill the residents of Bacurau for sport. → Necropolitics
The act of Bacurau being erased from digital maps and GPS systems at the beginning of the film.
The community's brutal, ritualistic killing and burial of the foreign hunters in the film's climax.
The Bacurau Historical Museum.
The central conflict between the foreign hunters and the townspeople.