Word: brazilianizing
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...Portugese--is a common figure in modern Latin American cities. The homeless children have little choice but to beg and steal. Neither their families, nor society as a whole is willing to care for them. Abandoned to the streets, Pixote is pressed into service by adult thieves because under Brazilian law he's too young to be indicted. Instead, he is repeatedly sent to a boys reformatory, where he learns of violent rape, murder and spiritual corruption. Inside, Pixote is victim; upon his release he turns predator. But his character does not seem to have changed...
Babenco's criticism of the Brazilian regime is potent. Those in positions of authority in Pixote from warden to minister, are interested only in covering up their own sins, never in serving the government. Although Pixote is adapted from a book, under Babenco's direction the film seems so realistic that it appears to have no props and no actors...
...emergence of a Brazilian film industry with international acclaim is a welcome development. For too long, the Latin American film world has been dominated by American directors, and Latin American culture too heavily influenced by the values implicit in American films. Though it will take a long time to erase misunderstandings of the Third World, the emergence of films which show a reality alien to our own is a large step toward progress...
...track acquitted itself fairly well in its first test. The top eight finishers averaged more than 96 m.p.h., faster than established events in Monaco and Montreal. The fifth-place finish by Brazilian Nelson Piquet was enough to give him the 1981 world championship. As for high rollers, Sports Book Manager Jimmy Vaccaro observed: "The race just doesn't draw the breed of gambler the fights do. Boxing people bet everything; a race fan plays twenty-one with his wife...
...Third World than would ten courses in the political economy of underdevelopment. This is one of the most stirring movies you'll ever see, due to the graphic depiction of the aspects of poverty that you'd rather not think about. Pixote is a ten-year-old Brazilian who is sent to Reform School in an arbitrary police round-up. By the end of the film he is a murderer, a dope smuggler, a pimp, and only several months older than when we first meet him. We witness with him the brutality, corruption, drug abuse, homosexuality, squalor and general degradation...