The movie "Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday" is a documentary about the creative process of Emicida's studio project AmarElo and his performance at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo in 2019. While preparing the show, Emicida reflects on the past 100 years of Brazilian history from the perspective of black people, focusing on his home state of Sao Paulo. Through his music and performance, Emicida explores the legacy of colonization and its impact on the black community in Brazil. The documentary is divided into three parts: Planting (Plantar), Watering (Regar), and Harvesting (Colher). In each part, Emicida sheds light on the racist injustices that white people have inflicted upon the black population. He does this through a combination of interviews, old TV footage, animated sequences, and music, lots of it.

This is a powerful and impactful documentary that reveals, scares, and wakes us up to the reality of social injustice in the middle of the 21st century. The movie is particularly striking when Emicida brings together two very marginalized groups by performing with drag queens, delivering a powerful song that encapsulates the message of the entire film.

I reckon for those really into (brazilian) music, this will feel way better than what I rated. I had no clue who the titular "character" is - but since it was on Netflix and let's keep it real, what else is there to do ... I gave it a shot. You should at least have a knack or love for music in general and hip hop ultimately too.

But that is not all the documentary shines a light on - we get to see an evolution - how and from where the music scene got to where it is today. Fascinating and really enticing ... for some more than for others.

It's a history class, about brazillian music evolution from samba to rap and brazillian black people fight through last hundred years, very strong emotional material. The editor really shine on this, is a must watch.