Asphalt-Haie (1980)

Asphalt-Haie: Directed by Hector Babenco. With Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino. The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.

“u0026quot;Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fracou0026quot; deals with what is perhaps the greatest of all Brazilian themes: poverty. And along with poverty the other unnatural feelings and actions it brings; prostitution, violence, crime, rape and murder.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBrazil is the country of paradoxes, and its social problems are present everywhere. The difference between the rich and the poor; the beautiful and the ugly; happiness and the most profound human decay.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Pixoteu0026quot; is one of the films that dare to touch and open these so painful wounds, and does it without the slightest glimmer of hope, in an honest portrayal of a country that, like Pixote himself, is already lost.”