Brainstorm (2000 film)

Brainstorm Portuguese Bicho de Sete Cabeas is a 2000 drama film directed by Las Bodanzky based on the autobiographical book Canto dos Malditos by Austregsilo Carrano Bueno. The film was made through a partnership between Brazilian and Italian studios and starred Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos and Cassia Kiss. The film tells the story of Neto, a young man who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital after his father discovers he is a user of marijuana. There, Neto is submitted to abuse. In addition to abuse by psychiatric hospitals, the film deals with the issues of drugs and relationships between fathers and sons.

The film opens as Mr. Wilson reads a letter he has received from his son Neto, in which Neto declares his contempt for his father. It is followed by a flashback to explain the story Neto, a So Paulo middleclass teenager, has a troubled relationship with his father and his mother, Meire.One day, Neto travels with his friend Lobo to Santos without informing his parents. They go to an apartment where they swim and eat food Neto leaves the place when Lobo suggests that they reciprocate for the food by letting the men there caress them. Alone in downtown, Neto begs for money, and he is helped by a woman called Leninha. She takes him home to have lunch with some friends after it, Neto and Leninha have sex. Later, at night, he is arrested for doing graffiti, and his parents pick him up at the police station. The following day, Neto is in his bedroom and his father finds a marijuana cigarette in his jacket. Netos sister advises his parents to send him to a mental institution. ........

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