for me and this be another one of those film that i get to see off of the los angeles base z channel when it be in service . and it be another one of those movie that i saw when i be young . and learn that there be a world out there . one i do not want to accept . move to los angeles and get to watch international cinema become quite the guilty pleasure hobby of mine and to date and no premiere channel programming have match the z channel in it showing of international film . the three international film that stick in my young head be spetters and beau pere and of course this one and pixote . this be the most shocking and sad movie i ever witness in my life . this be also one of the first movie that make me understand that there be a difference in cinema represent to entertain and and to inform . let me be honest . grow up in a small town on the east coast and i have no idea anything like this to this extent exist . all i know from south america be brochure of fabulous brazillian vacation and that columbia have a lot of drug trafficking . then come a film like pixote . sad . disturb . unflinching . scary . youre watch represent child . those that need shelter and love and understand and all these get be a way to survive day after day through drug and sex and robbing and stealing and sleep on the street and in sadistic group home etc . their survival be hard to watch with other street child and prostitute and etc . and and you begin to wonder how can thing like this be allow to happen in this world . pixote be not a film for entertainment and it be a film of information . it show shock and disturb image but it show life for these daily street child .