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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...
...They're all paranoid and turning on each other," says Deputy Warden Lloyd Mixdorf. Warns Classifications Officer John Byers: "It's a madhouse. Everyone's thinking of either squealing or of who will squeal." Contends a state prison monitor, Daniel Cron: "The atmosphere is explosive. The prison is not under control...
...tongue-in-cheek and improbable, but with it Bergman manages to tell a surprisingly well-conceived story. Bob Fine starts out as a naive and inexperienced English professor, who joins his father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns...
...seducing him. When he is called upon to grow in the movie, he manifests the change more in his costume than in his manner. Melato does acceptably as the lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff but lovable paternal figure, Kiel (remember Jaws in the James Bond movies?) as the superhuman giant who picks up and throws lots of very heavy objects. Kiel shines only briefly when, in a moment of vanity...
...trouble began at Jackson on May 21, when two guards were attacked by inmates, apparently without provocation. The next day, representatives of the guards demanded that the prisoners be locked up and shaken down to collect the illicit weapons. Both Warden Barry Mintzes and State Corrections Director Perry Johnson vetoed the plan as unnecessarily provocative, but the guards began a lockup anyway. Fearful that they might be confined to their cells over the long holiday weekend, prisoners in four of Jackson's 14 cellblocks refused to be caged. They turned on the guards, who fled to safety, and began...