350

In my last article the Brazilian Soccer National Championship had not ended yet. Now, we know that Corinthians is the Champion. We know who’s in second division, who’s not. Also we know that Dirceu went down, but it isn’t the end of the government crisis soap opera.

It looks like Arabian world, but it isn’t. One bus was burned and some people died. A terrorist attack. In the counter-attack, who burned the bus was dead. Outlaw-Justice. It shocks the country. Does it shock?! No, it dosen't shock. Neither Ze, neither Mane, neither Pele. Nothing shocks anymore.

Horrible themes don’t shock anymore. Our brutal daily life has already dominated us and convinced us about it. About some miserable lives of some people or about some millionary lives of others. The daily life has convinced us about drug dealers, corruptions and rapes. We have already been convinced about dog’s life.

Sometime ago, scarred, we watched the live news on tv - Muslim-Xiites exploding themselves in car bombs and burning the white-dyslexic-north-American monkey’s flag and pictures. We believed they are crazy. One of them with his turban and another one with his red tie. They are insane. Now, we are asking ourselves, who is crazy? Crazy people must be the healthy people.

After the episode – 174 Bus - the sequence of this movie is 350 Bus. Is it possible to tell the origin of this barbaric story? Maybe we need one new long TV show for that.

The 350 Bus is Rio de Janeiro’s realistic portrail. Rio was cover of many magazines. Rio was the best place to find the most beautiful buts of world’s posts cards. Rio inspired Jobim. Now, it is the visceral sample of the Brazilian daily life. Politicians discuss many things without value as whether the post cards can or can't expose an ass. The police force kills more than the bad guys and nobody knows where the limit of one of them begins or ends. It is impossible to separate the slam from the city, or should be the city from the slam? Cristo Redentor, the famous statue on top of a mountain, stays with his hands up, because he is thinking that he is being robbed.

The 350 Bus shows to us our terror state that we live. Our terrorism here has a number of types and ways. We have terrorists inside the Planato Central until the Palacio do Catete. All of them are wearing suits and ties, and treat themselves by “ilustrissimo”. We have terrorists in uniform and without uniform, but with official’s vehicles. We have terrorists with sandals and shorts, and treat themselves by “what’s up dude?”. And we have another one, the white terrorism, like the white weapons, no sound, we can't see very well, we don’t know who is a terrorist or if there is one terrorist cell. Anyway, we just know that it exists. I call it "employment terrorism". Be a hostage of your own job. You can’t drop it away, even if that is killing you. It is a constant threat.

350 shows us that the law from the outlaw is the law.

by Fernando Katayama 11 dec. 05