AS INCRÍVEIS BOLINHAS DO DR. SORRISO SARCÁSTICO

DR. SARCASTIC SMILE’S AMAZING PILLS
Fiction | 16mm | 2003 | 09 minutes
Independent production

SYNOPSIS: Tormented by his weight problem, a young man decides to seek medical help, yet again. This time, he will get a surprise. Dr. Sarcastic Smile is willing to test his most radical weight-loss programs on the unwitting patient.

Watch the film: Porta Curtas

- Shown in eight film festivals in Brazil, including Brasília (03), Cine PE (Recife, 04), São Paulo (04), Goiânia (04) and Vitória (04)
- Critics’ Honorable Mention at the Mostra ABCV do Cinema Brasiliense (Special showcase of films from Brasília, 04)

Directed, produced and written by: Gustavo Galvão
Director of photography: André Carvalheira
Visual effects: Ricardo Landim
Editor: Marcius Barbieri
Sound editor: Pauly Di Castro
Soundtrack: Walverdes, Júpiter Maçã
Cast: Roberto Fonseca, William Ferreira



DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Doctor: “Well, then, have you ever considered stomach reduction surgery?
”Patient: “Hmmm, no… I don’t want to keep vomiting everything I eat”.

It is hard to say what brought this film about: the cutting dialogues, the narrative’s confessional tone or the expressionist potential in both? All this is in Bernardo Scartezini’s chronicle, the origin of this ironic story. Based on these three ideas, the script took the story ahead showing the return of a young man, tormented by his excess weight, to the office of Dr. Sarcastic Smile – who is intent on testing his most radical slimming therapies on the patient:

Doctor: “Look, I’m not saying this is not Prozac”.
Patient: “What? A Prozac-type pill? Doesn’t this make one high?”
Doctor: “It stimulates a substance in the brain… se-ro-to-nin, which makes you happy when you eat”.
Patient: “I see… a bit like ecstasy, right?”