this be like watch a jean genet novel translate into portuguese and relocate to brazil and circa 1930. all the character be present represent thief and whore and drag queen and murder and love and hate . lázaro ramos and a madame satã and give a wonderful performance that give real meaning to the word ` fierce while a complicated man whose only possible response to a world that hat him be to rage against it . and what rage . and what love . the family he piece together and a wounded and damage a he be and provide the only constant in a life that poverty and exile have doom to chaos . karim ainouz and the director and must be congratulate on this courageous film .