Pixote

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Summary: Real Streets
Review: This film is aging, but it is no less disturbing. "Pixote" shows unflinchingly that life for homeless boys on the streets has not changed a bit over the years.

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Summary: The Power of Cinema
Review: This film, in my opinions, embodies the expression "packing a punch." It is an unbelievable viewing experience. The film takes place in the slums of Brazil, where we are shown the poverty and crime which surrounds millions of Brazilian children. This over populated country provides a backdrop unlike any other you are likely to see. The story follows 11 year old Pixote ("pee wee") as he is brought into a youth correctional facility, his escape and ultimately his meeting with fate. The film is an inescapable tragedy which becomes even more disturbing when knowing that the actor who played Pixote died at such a young age and in such a violent way. This film serves as a testament to the unwanted price many children face, and how minute our day to day problems suddenly seem after watching such a work of uncompromised art.

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Summary: A shocking experience
Review: This films is one of the saddest I've seen. The degree of brutality and human degradation is unbelievable. I think no one in the movie deserves their fate, contrary to some other reviewer's opinion. It's just a terrible circle from which there is no escape, it seems. I am grateful that such movies are produced still, since it's hard to stomach it. Naked truth indeed.

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Summary: stunning
Review: This is one of the best movies ever made. If you take it seriously, if you realize it's an accurate portrayal of life for many children in South America, it will change your view of the world. Anyone interested in children's rights, orphans, poverty, Latin America, or foreign and non-traditional cinema should see this movie.

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Summary: too strong for words
Review: This is perhaps one of the most accurate depictions of life on the streets for millions of homeless, and parentless, children around the world. Vivid. Hard-hitting. Certainly not for the weak of stomach. Pixote tells the straight story of a young child's search for "familia", security and the realization of every child's dream for opportunity...... and of the sex, drugs, loneliness, violence and brutality that he finds instead in the streets. A great learning tool for students, social workers, law enforcement and those in the ministry: you will NEVER view street children the same after watching this. (...)

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Summary: Powerful insight!!
Review: This is perhaps one of the most accurate depictions of life on the streets for millions of homeless, and parentless, children around the world. Vivid. Hard-hitting. Certainly not for the weak of stomach. Pixote tells the straight story of a young child's search for "familia", security and the realization of every child's dream for opportunity...... and of the sex, drugs, loneliness, violence and brutality that he finds instead in the streets. A great learning tool for students, social workers, law enforcement and those in the ministry: you will NEVER view street children the same after watching this. (...)