A short mini-documentary trailer featuring Ronan Oliveira recounting traumatic childhood experiences growing up in a violent neighborhood in Brazil. He describes memory loss after waking in a hospital and a specific bullying episode during school physical education that was repressed but lingered subconsciously.
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I woke up in the hospital. And this is. I remember. And that memory that I lost meant that I couldn't remember anything that had happened in the past four to five years. I grew up in a place that. In a neighborhood in Brazil where kids needed to be taken care of because there was a lot of violence and drugs and things like that. And I was getting to fight, but I was a very skinny and small and weak kid, so it was not to my advantage. I remember this one episode that I was at school and we were at physical education classes. That to me was my worst, my nightmare. And I remember that one assessment is that we sit on the floor with our legs straight and you try to reach your toes. And the cool kids, they were good at football. They couldn't barely reach their knees. They're like that. So when I was there, super flexible, touching my toes. There was a school kid that came besides me and he said, ah, teacher, he can do this because he's short and his legs are short. And then I was there and I looked at him, I said, yeah, but my arms are also short. They are proportional, right? And then he slapped me at the back of the head and he said, you shut up, you're a piece of shit. And I kept my head down, I shut up, and I stayed that way. The teacher didn't do anything. And that memory disappeared from my mind because was something too hard to remember or to deal with. It disappeared from the top of the mind, but it was in the back. It.
