Saneamento Básico, o Filme is a brilliant, absurdist fable about the misallocation of resources and the dignity of basic needs. It argues that while art can expose rottenness – social, political, physical – it cannot disinfect it. The community’s makeshift horror movie becomes a treasure, but they still wade through filth. Furtado leaves us with an uncomfortable question: In a world where governments prefer spectacle over septic tanks, how rotten are we willing to let things get? The answer, the film suggests, is not a monster in the lagoon, but the silence that accepts a leaky pipe as normal. That is the true horror.