He s an old school friend of Orpheu and is clearly uncomfortable in the role life has dealt him. During a bit of intimidation as Carnival is unfolding, he fires a warning shot at the ground. Unluckily, Eurydice is hit by the ricochet. He wants to take her to a hospital, but his less-conflicted henchmen counsel throwing her body over a cliff. When Orpheu gets wind of this, he descends into this hellish place where many bodies have been disposed of.
Snakes crawl around freely.
He emerges with her body, only to be killed by a jealous ex who can t bear watching his sorrow over Eurydice. By that point, the viewer, too, can hardly bear any more. The whole myth has been so muted that it might have been better not to burden the film with it at all. The director claims he wanted to paint a modern Rio where it is easy to identify injustice, but very hard to differentiate good from evil and to draw the line between them. This is nonsense on stilts, as a great natural law proponent once remarked.