Word: throe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shut. The film is canny enough to reveal the horrors of underage incarceration in Brazil before it turns Pixote and his comrades loose on a jag of snatching purses, rolling drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot of an infant convict at the end of his last mile...