Barra Pesada

In this very dirty and violent film about dangerous underworld in Rio de Janeiro, Queró is one of the most despicable leading role characters I have ever watched in cinema: he not only robs and steals, but also betrays friends and agreements, is racist, is violent against gays and women but coward when facing stronger men without a gun. I wish Nelsão and Brandão had beaten him much more. Poor Negritinho, a friend he does not deserve, who engaged as his partner in crimes just for helping him to pay a gambling debt (in a pool game to deadly Brandão) but soon became, together with him, a victim of extorsions and aggressions by Teleco and former pro wrestler Nelsão. Queró's only good quality is hating pimpery, but is due the fact that his mother was herself a prostitute who suffered a lot, and he saw it when was a kid. Despite that background, is simply impossible to have even a slight empathy for him.