Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco)

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Plot: Hector Babenco's scathing and heartbreaking story of Pixote (Fernando Ramos Da Silva), a sweet-looking streetwise 10-year-old boy who is one of the three million homeless children living on the street...( read more read more... )s of São Paulo, Brazil, is based on the novel A infância dos mortos (The Childhood of the Dead Ones) by José Louzeiro.

Forced to endure brutal conditions at a prison-like reform school, Pixote befriends Lilica (Jorge Juliano), an older transvestite; her boyfriend, Dito (Gilberto Moura); and young charmer Chico (Edilson Lino). Together the four escape the reform school and struggle to survive in a desolate world of poverty and violence. Traveling in the underworlds of São Paulo and Rio, the makeshift family of boys turns to a life of petty crime for financial support. Homeless, the boys are forced to endure hunger and extreme danger as they begin dealing drugs and eventually end up working with Sueli, a burnt-out prostitute (Marília Pêra in a devastatingly powerful performance) who seduces her johns while the boys rob them at gunpoint.

This gritty and painful examination of Brazil's forgotten children is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel's film about urban poverty and juvenile delinquency, Los Olvidados, while the character of Pixote, played by real-life homeless boy Da Silva, is a direct descendant of François Truffaut's unforgettable protagonist Antoine Doinel from Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows). Babenco's use of a largely nonprofessional cast and a powerful story combines to make one of the most haunting portrayals of childhood ever filmed. Furthering the film's relevance is the sad note that Da Silva died only a few years after starring in the film -- shot by police who mistook him for a criminal. In 1996, Quem Matou Pixote? (Who Killed Pixote?), a biographical drama about the life and death of Fernando Ramos Da Silva, was released.

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  • kikyluvgwen
    kikyluvgwen
    4.0 Stars
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    March 20, 2008
    pixote is clearly one of well-made documentaries about juveniles in slump area in Sao Paolo, Brazil. A story about a young boy named Pixote who at 19 was brutally murdered by corrupted police. The film you can think about how fortunate you are living in a everything-is-available community.
  • aleksei96
    aleksei96
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    December 22, 2007
    City of God without the bells and whistles, this hard but understanding look at the sideways of life is a tough one to watch.
  • nickson52
    nickson52
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    October 15, 2006
    An intensely difficult film to watch tracking the lives of homeless children in Brazil. Babenco picked kids off the street to play the orphans, mixing reality with fiction. This was taken a step further when several years after making the film Ramos Da Silva was gunned down by the police.
  • tonesterc
    tonesterc
    5.0 Stars
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    March 19, 2006
    Saw this one in a film class, and decided to write my term paper on it. If you're able to find a copy of it, I strongly recommend seeing it. It's very emotionally intense and I felt strangely connected to the characters. FREE BRAZILIAN CHILDREN!!!

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Hector Babenco
  • Genres: Art House & International, Drama, Action & Adventure
  • Released: May 5, 1981
  • DVD Released: June 5, 2001

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