"Can you read?"
"I can only read pictures."
Probably the perfect gangster film. It could be so brutal and violent, but every decision made sense and every character was so believable. It just weaves all of these different personal stories together in such an organic way.
It's also political in exactly the right way. Chronic unemployment, poor housing, over-policing, racism, lack of education etc. etc. are the general backdrop of the story instead of the direct subject. So you come to naturally understand how these things affect the Brazilian lumpenproletariat without being lectured to by some shitty political exposition.
Very very very very good.
