There is a Robert Frost poem called “Escapist – Never” which provides a frequent refrain in Greg Barker’s deeply admiring but drawn-out biopic of Brazilian diplomat and U.N. leadi…
’s deeply admiring but drawn-out biopic of Brazilian diplomat and U.N. leading light Sergio Vieira de Mello. “It is the future that creates his present,” runs the penultimate line, and the handsome, heroic, charismatic de Mello certainly does seem like a man whose present was shaped by the future — specifically by the better, brighter, freer global future he believed the U.N. could be instrumental in achieving and that he personally could help midwife into being.
“Sergio” begins with a re-creation of an actual to-camera piece that de Mello, then U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, recorded to welcome and inspire new recruits to the organization. Though it’s filmed in an office from behind a desk, de Mello ends on an exhortation to value field work above all else, neatly cuing up the nesting-table series of flashbacks and flash-forwards detailing his own time on the ground in Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia and, finally, Iraq.
Although the relationship with Larriera was doubtless crucially important to de Mello, it was not the thing that made him extraordinary in the eyes of the world.
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