Briefly explain how culture and ethnicity play a role in determining the ideology of director Hector Babenco’s film Pixote

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Filmmakers in emerging societies are often left-wing in their orientation, championing the cause of the poor, the forgotten, and the despised.
2. Hector Babenco’s film explores the culture of poverty by focusing on the violent life of Pixote (Peewee), a lonely youth who is typical of millions of abandoned street urchins.
3. In a country of 204 million, over 95 percent live in desperate poverty, forced to scratch out a meager survival by whatever means they can.
4. Fernando Ramos da Silva, who plays Pixote, was one of a family of ten children who grew up in the dog-eat-dog ghettos of São Paulo. Seven years after this movie was made, he was shot and killed in an attempted armed robbery. He was 19.
5. Babenco’s film is a leftist critique of poverty in his native Brazil.