film about the failure of government and the selfishness of adult . overwhelm impossibility of deal with life and the mean the child go to to try to achieve living . only live . stay alive in a cruel world . a nightmare world and we be afraid to watch it because we be see truth and be afraid to see it . to see a world of despair when we be all so comfortable in our own life and even complain about what we have not get when it be so trivial compare to someone else . they and the child of the movie and be desensitize . they be more than desensitize by what be around them . they see sex a an act and like they be watch a tv program . when the one boy be with the hooker and pixote be sit on the bed watch with a blank stare and no feeling . he want to be a little boy and have a family but the hooker have no compassion either and push him away . a human film and with human relation and moral judgement in a ugly and scar and cruel world . remind u that life be not fair and but you can still have a human connection .