Last Stop 174

Last Stop 174 Portuguese ltima Parada 174 is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Bruno Barreto, written by Braulio Mantovani, produced by Moonshot Pictures and starring Michel Gomes and Marcello Melo, Jr.. The film relates a fictionalized account of the life of Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, a street kid in Rio de Janeiro that survived the Candelria massacre and, in 2000, hijacked a bus. On September 16, 2008, the film was chosen by the Ministry of Culture as the representative of Brazil in the Oscar competition for best foreign film at the ceremony in 2009.

Last Stop 174 tells the story of Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, who in 2000 hijacked Bus 174 in Jardim Botnico, a violent hijacking that has vividly stuck with Brazilians.The film opens with a woman giving her child Alessandro up at gunpoint to a man collecting debts. This woman soon finds religion as a means of salvation, marrying a pastor. She believes that God will help her find Sandro. However, the Sandro the woman finds is not her son it is another boy Sandro do Nascimento, whose mother was murdered in front of him, prompting him to move to Rio in search of a better life. There, Sandro lived near the Candelria Church, and survived the Candelria massacre in 1993. The film takes the viewer through Sandros life, showing his various runins with the law, his romantic life, and the charity workers that tried to help him in the favela. Despite his knowledge that the religious woman is not his mother, Sandro goes along with it anyway to have a place to live. The final thirty minutes of the film is a dramatization of the Bus 174 hijacking of 2000, showing how the events happened including the feigned killing of the woman who wrote the lipstick messages, the death of the young teacher on the bus, and the eventual death by asphyxiation of Sandro. The final scene of the film is Sandros adoptive mother and his friend Al whose full name is also Alessandro at Sandros funeral. ........

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