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Central StationThe film Central Station (1998) is about second chances and starting over. Dora, a retired teacher, writes letters for illiterate strangers in a bus station, Central do Brasil , in Rio. When one of her clients, a mother, is killed in an accident outside, Dora takes on the responsibility of taking care of the child, Josué decides to take him to visit his father, who leaves far away, by bus, truck and strangers. The journey becomes a search for one's identity: a boy's search for his father and a woman's search for his heart. The story takes place in a very poor area of ​​Brazil, with graffiti everywhere the walls, and crimes occur everywhere. A man is chased and killed for shoplifting. I believe that Central Station is an accurate representation of Brazil at the time, with its political problems and economic chaos. refers to a film that provides an accurate portrayal of third world countries and people. It has also been defined as a type of political film based on Third World experiences. The term was used in a manifesto towards a third cinema, written by Latin American directors Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino. Aside from Central Station, another example of Third Cinema is the film Romero (1989) in which an archbishop is portrayed as a prophet who speaks on behalf of the voiceless oppressed. Another term associated with this film is ideology. Ideology is usually defined as a "set of ideas that reflect the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class or culture". Ideology is divided into three types: neutral, implicit and explicit. In a neutral film, the emphasis is on action, pleasure, and entertainment values ​​for their own sake. Questions of right and wrong are treated superficially, with little or no analysis. In an implicit film the protagonists and antagonists represent contrasting value systems, but we do not focus on these. We must deduce what the characters represent as their story unfolds. Nobody explains "the moral of the story". Finally, in explicit films, the films are intended to teach or persuade as much as to entertain. Patriotic films, many documentaries, political films, and films with a sociological emphasis fall into this category. An example would be Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).