IndieWire<\/a> exclusively premieres, Mendon\u00e7a said he remembered reading stories about hairy, disembodied legs while growing up in fascist Brazil during the 1970s. Years later, he would discover that these stories were an urban legend created by a journalist to talk about police brutality and homophobia.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen you look back to the newspapers in the archives, you can find the original articles about the hairy leg, and they were written with a straight face,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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