To begin with, it is unbelievable that the kid's parents didn't check if the grandfather was there! What kind of real people would drop their son in the sidewalk and leave? And now it is definitive: Brazil has officially become a branch of Hollywood, filmically speaking. Some of the worst vices of American Cinema are present in this film. Example: in a party, a song is played and the boy starts dancing, which prompts every one in the room to start dancing too, in a frenetic and contagious way. Example of stupid scene: the boy is starving, yet refuses the pie that the girl brought him -- of course, he will eat it later, he just doesn't want to show the girl that he had such lowly, shameful needs such as eating. I could go on an on... It's an empty, superficial film, with cardboard characters, clichéd situations, and no imagination or cinematic skill.
