HBO Max series revisits Massacre de Realengo

New series from HBO Max, Massacre at School: The Tragedy of the Girls of Realengorevisits the tragedy that took place on April 7, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, when a 23-year-old man killed 12 students.

Bianca Lentiof documentaries Thread of Affection It is Araguaia Soldiers, analyzes possible reasons that led to the attack and the repetition of what happened in other schools. Ten of the victims of the Tasso da Silveira municipal school were girls and, therefore, the director approached the story from the perspective of femicide, according to the CNN:

This theme [o feminicídio] it was not prioritized because it was a very new crime and everyone was in shock. What mattered was: who was the shooter? Why did he do it?

The focus on the reports of the victims’ families and on the social discussion surrounding the theme led to slow aa not divulging the killer’s name throughout the two episodes of the series. In 2011, the name of the perpetrator of the crime was widely publicized, which led to the construction of a completely different narrative from that intended by bianca.

More than twelve years after the massacre, the scenario has changed for the worse, as the number of attacks on schools has increased. According to Brazil Agency, since 2002, 24 attacks have been registered, 17 of which occurred in the last four years. to the newspaper The State of S. Paulo, Bianca Lenti pointed to the defense of firearms as one of the factors that aggravated the situation since 2011:

We started filming the series in 2022 and everything changed. The context only got worse. We saw the radicalization of hate speech, defense of access to firearms, and widespread hatred on social networks. No wonder we’ve witnessed six more school massacres in the past six months.

The lifting of Brazil Agency it also reveals that in all cases the crime was committed by a man or boy, and 11 of them used firearms, causing three times more deaths than cold weapons.