Brazil and Mexico had differing pre-, during, and post-colonial experiences, so drawing the above maxim from Oswald de Andrade's Cannibal Manifesto and applying to Jorge Michel Grau's disturbing cannibal drama may be misleading. But Grau must have been all too aware of de Andrade's manifesto when he picked the title of his debut feature which never asks why people resort to cannibalism, but that they just "are".
