Within and outside of the courtroom, the conversation moved from one of a violent death to the nation’s generations-long denial of its colonialist rot. Zama, one of the true masterpieces of the past decade, is a Kafka-esque exploration of the colonialist invasion of South America through the eyes of a magistrate who wants to climb the social ladder back to Europe. The lawyers, witnesses, and defendants return to the scene of the crime to offer their conflicting versions of events, with reenactments whose cold professionalism cannot deflect from the sheer ghoulishness of the spectacle.
Author: Kayleigh Donaldson
Published at: 2025-09-14 20:05:41
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