I am tired of these movies
I am half brazilian (and i live there), so don't come here and say that i don't understand nothing about Brazil.
Anyway, this is pretty much stuff that we already saw in brazilian cinema: poor kid, criminals, death, drugs, lots of tears and stuff like that.
I will not be surprised if Globo Filmes will shat out a movie of the Rio De Janeiro school massacre, really, brazil is just producing the same stuff over and over again, i have seen better deciption of Brazil in Hollywood movies.
I think that you should watch the documentary, because i think that it's even better than this piece of exploitation, because that's what it is, an exploitation movie.