Roberto Baggio | movie | 2024 | Official Featurette
A filmmaker investigates his childhood memory of Brazil’s 1994 World Cup win, reflecting on capitalism and pop culture | dG1fLW93OTlzNDhVZlk
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00:00 One of the ideas that I touched in my film, Roberto Baggio, is the fact that many football
00:06 matches are decided by imponderable details, and unlike in other sports, where there are
00:11 rounds, sets, or rematches to verify the winner, in football, deviation is the core of the
00:17 game, and single moments define championships.
00:21 Afterwards, things that seemed improbable but still happened, gain an aura of inevitability,
00:28 as if they only happened because they had to happen.
00:31 In fact, while I was working, I considered adding the single example I can remember from
00:35 another ball sport as the exception that proves the rule.
00:40 It's that moment when Car Malone loses the ball to Michael Jordan.
00:47 In the 90s, the NBA finals were broadcast regularly to Brazil, and I remember admiring
00:53 Malone in Stockton very much.
00:55 They had everything to contest the balls and Michael Jordan that year.
00:59 They were arguably the better team, and in a 7-game series, the better team should prevail.
01:07 But Jordan had the myth on his side.
01:10 I'm not even going to discuss if he fouled Russell or not, it was not the moment, it
01:15 was that turnover, and now we can't even conceive a world where that didn't happen.
01:21 The aura of destiny infiltrates the very core of the images in our collective memory.
01:27 We now see that last three-pointer from Stockton, and it's almost as if that image contains
01:32 the defeat in itself.
01:33 And I like that, in sports, the idea that there was a future to be unveiled.
01:40 The problem is, we sometimes apply that to history.
01:45 History books will tie a chain of facts where everything makes sense, a logical path leading
01:50 to the state where things are now, and we end up believing that this is how the world
01:55 is because it was inevitable.
01:57 And if history was inevitable, we probably have no power in the face of the present either.
02:04 But we do.
02:06 We need to be able to imagine a world where things are different.
02:10 We need to.
02:12 Because imagination is the first step for change.
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