If we are mediocre and lacking critical sense, it is because we have been systematically organized by the system, because, in the anarchic groping of Zizo (Irandhir Santos), "organization is the main instrument for mediocrizing subjects." More than a film, "Febre do Rato", which premiered this Friday (22) in cinemas in São Paulo, Recife and Rio de Janeiro, is a manifesto that calls for the disorganization of gender and body norms. Anarchy and sex.
Claudio Assis's manifesto poem turns all societal norms on their heads regarding the conception of gender and sexuality. At no point do we have references to sexual orientations, healthy desiring bodies crying out for freedom in the face of a system that insists on locking bodies in border drawers. It is the guerrilla of poetry and the ideal.
It’s about reoccupying public space. It's sex and love without the barriers of age and genitals. The resistance that dares to show its face and take off its clothes. It also reveals the mediocre time in which we live, where yellow smiles have become cool and ideals have become things for "idiotic" and "passionate" people. In the end, that's what "Rat Fever" is: provoking people and saying that the ideal and poetry are not dead. And that transformation is possible, however tortuous and fatal such a choice of path may prove to be.
"Who said that poetry doesn't get drunk"
