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This very good Brazilian film follows a teenage ex-con’s first day with a straight job as a messenger boy. Director/co-writer Ricardo Elias concentrated on the interesting little challenges of the job while I sat in the audience waiting for something horrible (someone stealing his motorcycle; his former partners in crime going after him) to get the plot moving. Oddly, I was glad that it never did. The title, by the way, refers to the Hercules myth, and although the title character (the excellent Sidney Santiago) is named Hercules, I didn’t see the connection.