Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1980)

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

a.k.a. Pixote

1980 · 128 min · Directed by Hector Babenco

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

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cinephile085

It’s a well made film, but I have no interest in ever seeing it again.

Limbesdautomne

The film is a warning against all forms of authoritarianism. Violence committed by the poor is the result of institutional violence. Who is responsible for this institutional violence? The elites. Those who are not seen in the film, but who we imagine to be off-screen.

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prasanth

Another great movie like children of god.