LAST
STOP
174
(Última
Parada
174)
With
Michel
Gomes
, Marcello
Melo
Junior
, Chris
Vianna
, Jana
Guinoud
, Gabriela
Luiz
, Rodrigo
dos
Santos
, Douglas
Silva
, Vitor
Carvalho
, Ramom
Francisco
, Lucas
Rodrigues
, Yasmine
Luyindula
Written
by Bráulio
Mantovani
Directed
by Bruno
Barreto
Knowing
this
tale
(based
on a
true
incident)
was
penned
by City
Of God
screenwriter
Bráulio
Mantovani,
it is
a given
that
this
will
not
be a
happy
story...
Set
in the
favela
slums
of Brazil
(as
with
City
Of God
and
City
Of Men),
the
viewer
is taken
along
the
heartbreaking
route
of a
boy
named
Sandro
who
falls
into
drugs
and
crime
after
his
mother
is murdered.
After
landing
in a
youth
detention
center,
a group
of them
escape
and
he befriends
who
was
initially
his
worst
enemy,
Ale.
Once
a drug
addict,
Maria
was
thrown
out
in the
street
and
her
baby
Alessandro
taken
from
her
by her
gangster
boyfriend.
Many
years
later
she'd
found
God
and
started
the
search
for
her
lost
child.
She
believes
Sandro
to be
her
boy...
Within
this
dangerous
and
grimy
environment,
Sandro
survives,
but
in a
culmination
of events,
including
his
prostitute
fiancé
and
shattered
dream
of becoming
a rap
star,
he takes
a drastic,
deadly
step.
The
hardness,
violence
and
cruelty
depicting
this
situation
in Brazil
has
many
parallels
with
South
Africa,
but
except
for
Tsotsi,
it hasn't
really
been
explored
on film
to the
extent
that
they
have
in the
shadow
of the
Sugar
Loaf
Mountain.
A documentary
of the
bus-jacking
incident
in this
film
consisted
entirely
of actual
news
footage,
and
a piece
on that
would've
made
for
a great
extra
feature.
5
/ C
- Paul
Blom
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