The life of trash

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2009)

The movie is basically the story of a bunch of criminal trash who grow up robbing and murdering in a makeshift ghetto for the homeless (in which the government has tossed them) at the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Predictably, they grow up to become only more sociopathic and parasitical on society. Some might call them "gangsters," but really people like these are merely low class, low IQ garbage that deserve death.
The one good thing about this movie is the beginning. For once, you see dangerous sociopathic scum get what they deserve from the cops. One of them gets shot down in the street running like a dog while his psychopathic girlfriend "cries."
The rest of the film develops in predictable ways: the glory days and the requisite downfall. You can kind of think of this movie as the "Good Fellas" version for the kind of subhuman garbage they must deal with in Brazil. Decent piece of entertainment, if you're not too revolted by their sociopathic criminality, not to mention their ugly faces.