The film, despite its relatively short length, brilliantly allows the audience to grasp the current Brazilian political situation. One evening, as if the evening will never end, there man who is released from jail walking down the street. On the other hand, there is a group of people being assaulted by the police. The entire film of Seven Years of May consists of these two scenes and shows a part of a society that seems impossible to escape from the state violence. The traces of totalitarianism within the image of the night beautifully depicted by the director represent the darkness of this society that is not protected by the system of democracy. [Sung MOON]