1980 · drama · crime · social
Pixote
Directed by Héctor Babenco2h 7m1980
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.
Our read: Pixote (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · crime · social entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
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