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'O Homem do Futuro' (lit. "The Man from the Future") is a 2011 Brazilian science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Cludio Torres. The film stars Wagner Moura and Alinne Moraes. It was shot in Paulnia and Campinas in the state of So Paulo, and in Rio de Janeiro.

Plot



In 2011, Joo "Zero", a bitter but brilliant physicist, spends his days brooding over a fateful night 20 years before when he was publicly betrayed and humiliated at a college party by his then-girlfriend, Helena. He now heads one of the largest scientific projects in Brazil, but his eccentricities and tantrums have brought him to the verge of being fired by his former college roommate and current sponsor, Sandra, although she still believes in his project, and tries to defend him.

Aided by his best friend and fellow scientist, Otvio, Joo turns on the unfinished machine he has developed that was supposed to ensure his wealth as well as a new source of sustainable energy. Entering the machine, he thinks of the night when Helena humiliated him. To his surprise, the reaction caused by the machine opens a bridge to the past, leading him to the year 1991.

In 1991, a confused Joo wakes up and tries to go to his apartment, but finds that the key does not match. Upon asking the date to a stranger, the realizes that he has traveled through time. He goes to the party, where he sees his younger self having sex with Helena, after which she tells him that she loves him. After she leaves to sing on stage, the future Joo tells his younger self that he will invent a time machine, and he has come back to fix things. They find the young Otvio, and the future Joo tells them future technical and political events, so they will have money for the rest of their lives. After this, Joo tells his younger self that Helena's ex-boyfriend, Ricardo, will bring her champagne with a drug, and due to the effects, she will humiliate him on stage, by putting honey and feathers on him. After this, Helena will go with Ricardo to Spain, becoming a model and never seeing Joo again. The young Joo meets up with Helena, and tells her not to drink Ricardo's champagne. She doesn't, and an excited Joo tells her that he's going to be rich, and they will be together for the rest of their lives. The future Joo, watching the scene, disappears.

Joo wakes up in an alternate 2011 in which he is rich, but is not married to Helena. He learns that with his knowledge of the future, he founded the "Man From The Future" company; however, he has betrayed Otvio, divorced four times, and put Helena in jail after she was discovered holding a bag of his cocaine. He explains to Otvio that he is the Joo from the original timeline in the body of his new-timeline-self. After this, he has Helena released, and he donates to her all of his belongings. He reinstalls the time machine, dresses up as a spaceman, and then travels back to 1991.

In 1991, the Joo in the spaceman suit finds the original-future Joo and the young Joo in their meeting; this last one faints of the impression. The spaceman-Joo tries to convince the original-future Joo that he must live his life normally, but the original-future Joo refuses. The spaceman-Joo holds him at gunpoint, and makes him leave and let the original events of the night unfold. However, they are both encountered by the alternate-future Otvio, who traveled back in time after Joo left the alternate 2011. Meanwhile, the young Joo meets with Helena, disregarding his meeting with his other selves as a dream, and Ricardo approaches them with the champagne. Joo, however, is the one who drinks it, and he becomes drugged. The original-future Joo and alternate-future Otvio, wanting to change events, tie the spaceman-Joo in a separate location, in where he meets the young Sandra, to whom he proves he is from the future by showing her his iPhone and having her record a video. She unties him. The original-future Joo and alternate-future Otvio find the Helena and the drugged Joo, and hold them at gunpoint. They bring them where the spaceman-Joo is, and since he has been untied, he knocks out Otvio, and ties the original-future Joo. The spaceman-Joo then tells Helena to leave the young Joo, become a model, and meet him again 20 years in the future. They bring the young Joo on stage, in which he is put honey and feathers, humiliated, and given the nickname "Zero". The alternate-future Otvio disappears, as well as the original-future Joo and spaceman-Joo.

In 2011, after Joo enters the time machine and disappears, the spaceman Joo emerges, and destroys the source code of the time machine. He explains to a shocked Otvio that he has traveled through time, but the machine is too dangerous. He then shows him the video of the young Sandra, to prove his words. He leaves, and via Twitter he communicates with Helena, and they happily meet in an airport, where she fires Ricardo after 20 years of working with him.

A year later, Joo is found not guilty of destroying a science project. After exiting the courthouse, they meet with Sandra. At this point, it is revealed that before Sandra untied him in 1991, he told her to invest in Google and sponsor in Joo's projects, meaning that this timeline was the original one all along. Knowing that they have money for the rest of their lives, Helena and Joo look ahead to a better life, although Helena tells Joo that he "cheated".

Cast



* Wagner Moura as Joo "Zero" Henrique

* Alinne Moraes as Helena

* Maria Luiza Mendona as Sandra

* Gabriel Braga Nunes as Ricardo

* Fernando Ceylo as Otvio

References




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