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

aniya1 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:28:12 -0000

The differing gender and sexual roles in the film allow for constant changes in the characters as they interact with other people. Particularly interesting is teh character of Lalica, a transvestite who is mother and lover to some of the children. Her reaction to the arrival of Sueli, a prostitute is both poignant and tragic.

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aniya1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:47:24 -0000

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

aniya1 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:03:04 -0000

nd that's just one moment out of so many in this movie. This is a film that, without being in the least exploitive, nonetheless throws doors open wide to let the viewer see exactly what exists on the streets of Brazil (reminding us that if it exists there, the chances are pretty good that the same sort of thing exists elsewhere). It doesn't show us anything but the truth. There's no need for embellishment - the actuality is sobering enough. It's a hard movie to watch. I haven't watched it since I've had children of my own - truthfully, I've been kind of afraid to. I will again, though. This movie is too, too good to see only once, even if once is all you think that you can stand.

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

aniya1 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:15:45 -0000

And that's just one moment out of so many in this movie. This is a film that, without being in the least exploitive, nonetheless throws doors open wide to let the viewer see exactly what exists on the streets of Brazil (reminding us that if it exists there, the chances are pretty good that the same sort of thing exists elsewhere). It doesn't show us anything but the truth. There's no need for embellishment - the actuality is sobering enough. It's a hard movie to watch. I haven't watched it since I've had children of my own - truthfully, I've been kind of afraid to. I will again, though. This movie is too, too good to see only once, even if once is all you think that you can stand.

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

aniya1 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:32:31 -0000

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

aniya1 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:54:23 -0000

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

aniya1 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:15:46 -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. Pixote tries to trust and to love and to bond, but there simply is no room in his world for the gentle side of human nature. One is left at the end wanting desperately to do something for the Pixotes of the world, but what? Building more children's's prisons with higher walls surely is not the answer...

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

aniya1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:57:56 -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)

aniya1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:11:38 -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)

aniya1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:00:09 -0000

The performances are almost too good to be true, but Mr. Da Silva and Miss Pera are splendid. Pixote is not for the weak of stomach. A lot of the details are tough to take, but it is neither exploitative nor pretentious. Mr. Babenco shows us rock-bottom, and because he is an artist, he makes us believe it as well all of the possibilities that have been lost."

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

aniya1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:35:38 -0000

Both the tragic denoument (which comes at the end of a film in which tragedy follows tragedy, ad infinitum), and the final shot of Pixote playing alone on the railroad tracks with haunting accompanying music on the soundtrack, are unbearably poignant. A masterpiece.

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