Behind the Sun ( Portuguese : Abril Despedaçado ) is a 2001 social drama film directed by Walter Salles , produced by Arthur Cohn , and starring Rodrigo Santoro . Its original Portuguese title means Shattered April , and it is based on the 1978 novel Broken April written by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare , about the honor culture in the North of Albania .
19-462: (Redirected from Behind The Sun ) Behind the Sun may refer to: Behind the Sun (film) , a 2001 film directed by Walter Salles Behind the Sun (Chicane album) , 2000 Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album) , and the title song, 1985 Behind the Sun (Dive album) , and the title song, 2004 Behind the Sun (Motorpsycho album) , 2014 "Behind
38-428: A charming itinerant circus girl, all of life's possibilities open up for him. The film is narrated by "The Kid" who is later given a name by Clara and her stepfather, the traveling circus performers. They call him "Pacu" and he spends the whole film narrating which ultimately drives the viewers to identify and allows the film to humanize the characters. Later, Pacu and Tonho visit the circus in town, with Tonho forming
57-434: A man's attractiveness to a heterosexual woman may increase with the more he resembles her brother, while his unattractiveness may increase the more his likeness diverges from her brother. Females with a twin or very close-in-age brother, sometimes view him as their male alter ego, or what they would have been like, if they had a Y chromosomes. The book Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII written by Aristotle in 350 B.C.E., offers
76-513: A relationship with Clara. Clara later leaves her stepfather to be with Tonho, arriving at the farm to be with him. The two sleep together before she departs, telling Tonho to meet her in the east by the ocean. One of the Ferreira men come to the farm in order to exact revenge on the Breves, initially appearing to kill Tonho. However, it is revealed that they actually shot and killed Pacu, devastating
95-410: A series of tit-for-tat assassinations of their sons; an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. Embedded in this choreography of death is a particular code of ethics: "Blood has the same volume for everyone. You have no right to take more blood than was taken from you." Life is suffused with a sense of futility and stoic despair. Under pressure from his father, Tonho kills one of the Ferreira sons to avenge
114-422: A song by Sylosis from the 2012 album Monolith See also [ edit ] Sun (disambiguation) Men Behind the Sun , a 1987 Chinese film Things Behind the Sun , a 2001 film directed by Allison Anders "Things Behind the Sun", a song by Nick Drake from the 1972 album Pink Moon Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
133-418: A way in which people should view the relationships between biological brothers. The relationship of brothers is laid out with the following quote: "The friendship of brothers has the characteristics found in that of comrades and in general between people who are like each other, is as much as they belong more to each other and start with a love for each other from their very birth, and in as much as those born to
152-478: Is a man or boy who shares one or more parents with another; a male sibling. The female counterpart is a sister . Although the term typically refers to a familial relationship, it is sometimes used endearingly to refer to non-familial relationships. A full brother is a first degree relative . The term brother comes from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr, which becomes Latin frater , of
171-430: Is unclear. This finding does, however, suggest that although sibling conflict is a risk factor for risk taking behaviour, sibling warmth does not serve as a protective factor. Some studies suggest that girls having an older brother delays the onset of menarche by roughly one year. Research also suggests that the likelihood of being gay increases with the more older brothers a man has. Some analyzers have suggested that
190-413: The Breves. The father tells Tonho to get the gun in order to kill all of the remaining Ferreiras in retaliation. Tonho, realizing that his life with his family is destroyed, walks off without a word. His father attempts to shoot him for disregarding the honor of their family, but he is stopped by the mother who insists that the feud no longer matters and that it is over. Tonho arrives on a beach, staring at
209-508: The Sun the 58th greatest Brazilian film of all time , in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films. The year is 1910; the place, the badlands of Northeast Region, Brazil . Twenty-year-old Tonho is the middle son of an impoverished farm family , the Breves. He is next in line to kill and then die in an ongoing blood feud with a neighboring clan, the Ferreiras. For generations, the two families have quarreled over land. Now they are locked in
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#1732793331257228-787: The Sun (film) Co-produced by Brazil, France, and Switzerland, it was shot entirely in Bahia , taking place in Bom Sossego, a district of the city of Oliveira dos Brejinhos , and in the cities of Caetité and Rio de Contas . The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards , but it was not nominated. In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Behind
247-561: The Sun" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song) , 1987 "Behind the Sun" (Alexander Klaws song) , 2004 "Behind the Sun", a song by The Good, the Bad & the Queen from the 2007 album The Good, the Bad & the Queen "Behind the Sun", a song by Living Colour from the 2009 album The Chair in the Doorway "Behind the Sun", a song by Meshuggah from the 2012 album Koloss "Behind the Sun",
266-480: The murder of his older brother . This act marks him as the next victim. Tonho's younger brother is addressed only as "the Kid" by the family. Anticipating future loss, his parents do not give him a name. The Kid is an imaginative and loving child, whose spirit will not break in the face of harsh parenting, brutalizing isolation, and numbing poverty. The Kid's love encourages Tonho to question his fate. When Tonho meets Clara,
285-428: The same meaning. Sibling warmth or affection between male siblings has been correlated to some more negative effects. In pairs of brothers, higher sibling warmth is related to more risk taking behaviour, although risk taking behaviour is not related to sibling warmth in any other type of sibling pair. The cause of this phenomenon in which sibling warmth is only correlated with risk taking behaviours in brother pairs still
304-432: The same parents and brought up together and similarly educated are more akin in character; and the test of time has been applied most fully and convincingly in their case". For these reasons, it is the job of the older brother to influence the ethics of the younger brother by being a person of good action. Aristotle says "by imitating and reenacting the acts of good people, a child becomes habituated to good action". Over time
323-651: The sea with an expression of melancholic wonder on his face. Behind the Sun has an approval rating of 74% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , based on 46 reviews, and an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Visually poetic, Behind the Sun is a powerful statement about cycles of violence. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. BAFTA Film Awards Golden Globe Awards Havana Film Festival Venice Film Festival Brother A brother ( pl. : brothers or brethren )
342-451: The title Behind the Sun . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Behind_the_Sun&oldid=1232948560 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Behind
361-440: The younger brother will develop the good actions of the older brother as well and be like him. Aristotle also adds this on the matter of retaining the action of doing good once imitated: "Once the habits of ethics or immorality become entrenched, they are difficult to break." The good habits that are created by the influence of the older brother become habit in the life of the younger brother and turn out to be seemingly permanent. It
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