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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:12 -0000

This is a difficult movie to watch, and would have been even more difficult had I known then that the actor playing the protagonist was in fact killed in his home by police at age 19. Pixote (PeeWee) is a street kid in Sao Paulo who is caught in a roundup triggered by a murder in which he had no involvement. He is committed to a juvenile prison where he witnesses brutality and exploitation that ordinary citizens try very hard to believe doesn't exist. When finally he escapes, he and three comrades survive by the only means they know, which is crime. What makes the film so heart-rending is that both Pixote and the actor portraying him clearly do not wish to be the characters life circumstances have made them
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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:25:44 -0000

It's been about 5 years since I read the book and I may have misunderstood many things since my Portuguese is not fluent, but I believe that the story in the movie is not at all the same story in the book.

The names of the characters are all the same and some of the events are similar. In the book, the story primarily focuses on the kids' lives engaged in crime around the city selling drugs for Crystal. In contrast to the movie, in the book they spend very little time in the boys reformatory, Fumaca is with them throughout much of the book, and in the end the boys get major revenge on the police.
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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:54:52 -0000

Not since Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados has there been as savage and harrowing account of the plight of street kids or as damning a critique of Third World poverty and societal indifference. 10-year-old Pixote ("Pee Wee" in Portuguese) endures the brutalities of Brazil's repressive, corrupt reform schools, where military death squads and juvenile prison rape are the norm, only to flee to the dubious freedom of Sao Paolo's streets. Soon Pixote becomes a pimp, thief, and multiple murderer. Yet, through it all, the audience never loses sympathy for Pixote; director Hector Babenco makes clear that all Pixote wants and needs is a stable loving person in his life. Babenco's work is in the same spirit as the 1940s Italian Neorealists who coupled a realist style with a keen sense of social injustice.

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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:29:44 -0000

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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:31:21 -0000

This is no walk in the park. I saw this when it came out, and haven't had the guts to watch it again. You will never see a more horrifyingly devastating or depressing movie. I felt like I'd been severely beaten. What kind of world are we living in when we have children who are treated worse than garbage? This is our world, what we have created, what we have allowed to happen. And I would hesitate to say that I-ME-WE are not responsible for this. Babenco made this film to wake us up, to shake us to our very core, and he succeeded. How can we be cruel, or self-indulgent, or neglectful of our children, when we see the graphic results of such behavior? He is pointing a finger of accusation at us all for doing this to the lowliest and least powerful of our society. And if you aren't doing something each day to prevent it, then you are part of the problem. I am NOT a religious fanatic, but this movie made me think about the state of my soul.

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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:15:04 -0000

The saddest detail is to realize that this film, made almost twenty five years ago, documents a world that in terms of its poverty and depravity, has apparently changed very little. A brutal reality captured here but with some of the most layered acting I've ever seen in the history of film by a group of amateurs picked from the streets of Sao Paulo with no previous experience. Not one or two good performances, the entire cast is quite simply remarkable, and even sadder is the fact that most of them have probably now been swallowed by the street life they portrayed.

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Re: 931. Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco / Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (1981, Hector Babenco)

alodie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:12:46 -0000

Great story plot, a must have movie on anybody's collection. The starring role went to Fernando Ramos da Silva, a young boy who fell into the crime wave, killed some years later during a robbery. I would suggest people to watch the movie "Who killed Pixote?" so you can have a more in depth idea of the lives of these characters. Some other Characters from the movie had a similar fate, some died and others are in jail. None the less this movie will last for a long time in your memory.

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