{"id":1124,"date":"2006-05-21T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:30:15","slug":"pixote-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Pixote (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This is the district of Sao Paolo, a large Latin American industrial city. There are approximately three million homeless children who have no one and no defined family of origin.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote-Poster.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\n11-year-old Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) must survive on the brutal streets of Brazil, with the help of his friends.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juvenile Delinquents<\/li>\n<li>Prostitutes<\/li>\n<li>South America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nSimply from reading the genres listed above, it&#8217;s clear that this &#8220;gritty, uncompromising&#8221; film isn&#8217;t for the light-of-heart.  Similar in tone to <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0317248\/\"><em>City of God<\/em> (2002)<\/a>, <em>Pixote<\/em> follows the devastating adventures of a young boy who is sent to a &#8220;reformatory&#8221; &#8212; which, naturally, does anything but &#8220;reform&#8221; him.  Instead, as Peary puts it, Pixote&#8217;s &#8220;innocence is destroyed&#8221; when he is immediately subjected to a world of cruel guards, rape, drugs, and false accusations. But when Pixote and his buddies manage to escape (without much difficulty, it should be noted), life on the streets of Brazil is little better.  Every comfort Pixote finds &#8212; whether sniffing glue out of a bottle, listening to music in a stolen car, or snuggling with an older prostitute &#8212; is short-lived, and ultimately just contributes to his descent down a slippery slope. Sadly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/great-movie-pixote-1981\">in his 2004 review, Roger Ebert<\/a> writes that the illiterate Ramos da Silva returned to the streets after making this film, and was killed by police in 1987.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ramos da Silva&#8217;s raw performance as Pixote<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote2.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Pixote2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1120\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jorge Juliauo&#8217;s sensitive portrayal as the transvestite, &#8220;Lilica&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Lilica.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Lilica.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1121\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marilia Pera&#8217;s award-winning performance as the broken prostitute, Sueli<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Prostitute.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Prostitute.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1122\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An uncompromising look at adolescents banding together for survival<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Young Love.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Young Love.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes. This is one of the most powerful neo-realist films ever made.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreign Gem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0082912\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/05\/05\/movies\/babenco-s-pixote-show-the-boys-of-brazil.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/great-movie-pixote-1981\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the district of Sao Paolo, a large Latin American industrial city. There are approximately three million homeless children who have no one and no defined family of origin.&#8221; Synopsis: 11-year-old Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) must survive on the brutal streets of Brazil, with the help of his friends. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Juvenile Delinquents Prostitutes South America Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Simply from reading the genres listed above, it&#8217;s clear that this &#8220;gritty, uncompromising&#8221; film isn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1124\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62389,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/62389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}