A main ideological topic conveyed in the film is obviously the controversy surrounding violence. When and in what conditions is it acceptable? The film conveys that in the Brazilian slums, violence is the only means of achieving anything. For example, I remember the conversation among the Runts, talking about how they will never move up in rank if they joined the drug trade. Instead they decided that they would want to kill some people to move up in this hoodlum hierarchy.
A blatant historical and political influence is the gang violence in Brazil, as depicted in the film. Surely they may not be a story surrounding a young aspiring photographer who utilized photography as a way out of the slum, but definitely this violence exists and should not be ignored. It's proven especially with the identical television interview with the real life "Knockout Ned", copied shot for shot, line for line, the only difference being the actor portraying Ned.
The Brianair review stated that although being based on a current issue, the film makers "do not provide any political reference points or background-- the 'sixties', the 'seventies' are just chapter headings that don't explain what was going on in Brazilian society that created these slums"
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