<br><br><div data-v-232111b4="" data-v-b8dc8ecb=""><!----><p class="bullet mt-0" data-v-232111b4="">Fine, they thanked the award that had taken place moments before. And Wagner took advantage of the moment to give the hot jab that you're tired of seeing these days on the internet. "Award for best film which, in Brazil, is known as an international film".</p><p class="bullet" data-v-232111b4="">The joke is good because it is not natural for natives of the United States to understand that there are cultures that are also their own epicenter. Like a modern Copernicus, in a velvet kimono, Wagner Moura used his indefectible charm to show Americans that they are not the center of the universe. "Americans", in fact, the way they call each other, is wrong: you and I are also from this continent and, no, this place is not the backyard of the United States.</p><p class="bullet" data-v-232111b4="">The scene reminded me of two boys from the United States that I met in Barcelona, Spain. They had just returned from Afghanistan, where they fought defending their homeland. Veterans, they won a cash award from the American government for their courage in battle and for returning alive. And they chose to spend their dollars on the Mediterranean beach, famous for being a place where the top less is allowed. I was alone on the sand, reading and observing their conversation, which varied around the topics: 1) the girls' breasts, 2) their Budweisers and 3) the fact that the dog one of them had was missing on that trip.</p><p class="bullet" data-v-232111b4="">I don't remember why I ended up interacting with them - I think they needed Spanish translation to communicate with someone and I felt sorry for the soldiers. They were absolutely astonished because I was Brazilian (they didn't really know where Brazil was and asked if it was close to Spain), spoke Portuguese (I told them that in my country this was the official language), understood their language and was able to communicate in Spanish there on the beach. "I've never met anyone who spoke more than one language," they told me.</p><!----><p class="bullet" data-v-232111b4="">Never having met someone who speaks more than one language is one of the symbols of the self-sufficiency of a nation that doesn't care about the rest of the world. Their music, their cinematographic culture, their military power and their money are some of the emblems of a supremacy that, they believe, gives them the right (and the duty, some say), to invade other countries and earn a lot of money for it.</p><!----><p class="bullet" data-v-232111b4="">Wagner Moura enters the stage because his people complained on the internet. "For us, you produce foreign films, my friends", he explains, without saying that, but just with the smile that melts nations. Our nation, in this case, delights in the scene, as we do with our cuisine in the immensity of the country in which we live. Revenge has a delicious palm oil flavor. And we speak more than one language to make the joke so that they understand.</p><!----><!----></div>