When Marisa arrives at the centre in search of her son, she mistakes Sandro for Alessandro and tenderly takes the troubled boy under her wing. Later, Sandro somehow manages to survive the notorious Candelaria massacre, only to be locked away in a juvenile detention centre. Wistfully recalling his mother's promises to take him to Copacabana, the grieving boy runs away, ultimately falling in with a group of street kids and becoming addicted to drugs. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Rio, a young boy named Sandro wanders into his mother's shop to find her lifeless body riddled with knife wounds. Later, after becoming sober, Marisa becomes obsessed with finding her son and begins searching the local juvenile detention homes. Marisa (Cris Vianna) is a drug addict whose baby, Alessandro, was taken from her by drug dealers after she failed to pay a lingering debt. It’s 110 minutes long, in Portuguese with English subtitles.The tragic events that informed Jose Padilha's 2003 documentary BUS 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when, on the morning of June 12, 2000, the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim BotΓnico were taken hostage by a disturbed young man who had been abandoned by society. Ultima Parada 174 will be shown Saturday April 4, at 9:30 pm at Ex-Centris as part of the Festivalissimo film festival. One of its points was that he got more attention those few hours he held the passengers hostage than he had received in all the years his life. In the film Sandro goes to jail once, in real life he was in reform school and in jail several times.Ī documentary (Onibus 174) has already been made about Sandro and the bus. In fact, everyone in Brazil would know that the children (eight of them) were killed by police. They feared retribution over a drug debt so we assume that’s what the attack is about……though we don’t recognize the perpetrators. ![]() Later, in Rio, several street kids Sandro is hanging out with are killed while they sleep. In the film he comes upon his mother’s body after she has been murdered in her bar by a thief. Many of his real life experiences were so much worse that what we see in the film. We see Sandro’s early life in the boonies and how he came to the city because it was his dead mother’s dream. A place where people who do have money might be killed for it, where it seems you can be robbed at any time, whether you walk, take a bus or drive a car. The movie gives a bit of an idea of what it’s like to grow up poor, or worse yet, homeless on the streets of Rio…. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() In such a seemingly violent and dangerous city a preacher carries huge amounts of cash in his brief case. Every so often full blown raps just pop out of out of Sandro’s mouth. But the real son does NOT put two and two together……despite the fact that the letter is recounting HIS life. A guy reads a letter written by the mother he never knew, that she has sent to his (illiterate) friend, in the mistaken belief that said friend is her son. Sandro goes to the beach for the first time in ages (ever?) and right away he sees and recognizes a childhood friend he hasn’t seen for years. What else is new? That woman is a hooker. This friendship is eventually destroyed by rivalry over………a woman. ![]() In prison, a man does not rat out the guy who was about to kill him moments before, thereby earning the respect and eventual friendship of the murderous one. Later she cleans up her act and becomes a Bible-thumper. Then her abusive boyfriend (pimp?) comes home, beats her up, steals the kid and kicks her out of the house. A few moments earlier she had rubbed cocaine over her gums and taken a slurp of alcohol. Since we do know that eventually Sandro will do this sometimes it seems like its taking awhile to get there.Īnyway, lets get those cliches out of the way first ………(in no particular order.) In one early scene, just be sure we get the point, a woman nurses her baby with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. The next issue of Montreal Gazette Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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