Pixote

Pixote
by Hector Babenco

Pixote
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Actor: Edilson Lino, Fernando Ramos da Silva, Gilberto Moura, Jorge Juli?o, Zenildo Oliveira Santos
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Hector Babenco
Writer: Hector Babenco
Producer: Jose Pinto
Producer: Paulo Francini
Producer: Sylvia B. Naves
Writer: Jorge Dur?n
Writer: Jos? Louzeiro
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Portuguese (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 128 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Studio: New Yorker Video

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Movie Review: Pixote (CD)
Summary: 5 Stars

Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang word for, "PeeWee")is one of the millions of homeless children in Brazil. He is arrested in a typical police round-up and placed in their vesion of the United States Junenvile detention centers. although them film is about the kids down in Brazil, some 20 years ago.... You would be surprised to know,... that the US system is not much better, today, than what is portrayed in this movie! The kids in the US judical and foster care systems are treated pretty much the same way as these kids are treated 20 years ago in a third world country! Some people may look at this film and say, " Oh those poor kids down there in Brazil....", but what they don't know is that nothing has changed down there and it is much the same with the kids here... in America!!!

Summary of Pixote

Hector Babenco, who went on to direct the acclaimed Kiss of the Spiderwoman, made an international splash with this gritty portrait of juvenile poverty and street crime in Brazil. Pixote (Portuguese slang for "Peewee") is the name of a chubby-cheeked 10-year-old runaway played by real-life slum kid Fernando Ramos da Silva. He's a natural, creating a childlike and vulnerable character left emotionally hardened and morally adrift by his brutal experiences. In an overcrowded S?o Paulo "reform school," a cross between a prison and an army barracks, he learns the hard facts of survival as he watches gangs prey on weaker kids, and the cops and guards abuse, beat, and even murder their charges. Pixote escapes and turns to street crime in Rio with a small gang, but his dreams of big money and a good life are dashed as they play at crime in a violent kill-or-be-killed world. Equal parts expos? and social drama, Pixote dramatizes the plight of millions of children who live on the streets or get ground up in the system that breeds hardened criminals from juvenile delinquents. Like Luis Bu?uel's Los Olvidados, one of Babenco's inspirations, this occasionally melodramatic portrait of poverty is shocking and affecting, but no more so than da Silva's own life story. After completing the film he sank back into poverty and crime, and died on the streets. His life became the subject of the 1996 film Who Killed Pixote?, which showed that despite the outcry created by Pixote, Brazil has done little to alleviate these conditions. --Sean Axmaker

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