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Roger Ebert. January 24, 2003. 5 min read. “City of God” churns with furious energy as it plunges into the story of the slum gangs of Rio de Janeiro. Breathtaking and terrifying, urgently involved with its characters, it announces a new director of great gifts and passions: Fernando Meirelles. Remember the name.
A paradoxically beautiful portrait of a life fueled by all the evil and immorality in the world, and really makes you think about those that aren't as well off. It's so energetic and New Wave in its presentation, it practically pulls every trick out of the bag to portray the violent righteous rage of the favelas...
The City of God film is a Brazilian crime drama which was released in 20 The film is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Paulo Lins. The story is set in the impoverished suburb of Rio de Janeiro known as Cidade de Deus. This neighborhood was built in the 1960s to accommodate people who had been displaced by the city’s urban ...
City Of God while good is still a 2 hour movie that conveys to you the rise of organised crime in a poor neighbourhood but it's more a commentary on individualistic behaviour than anything else. The Wire is a tv series, a long form story told over 60 hours and is a commentary on the inner workings of an american city, and the deterioration of the American Dream.
In "city of god" you can see that every character has its own motivations, its own dreams, ambitions..whatever. It just feels alive. It's a great movie, i feel like sometimes movies that talk about poverty or those kind of situations tend to strip people of emotions or flaws making them just pawns in the plot with no real depth.
The City of God, philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity, written by the medieval philosopher Saint Augustine about 413–426 CE. It was written in response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome by barbarians in 410 was one of the consequences of the abolition of pagan worship by Christian emperors.
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Jan 24, 2003 · "City of God" never gives itself over to pure nihilism. In fact, under the bravado, it's tragic, and that shell of ironic bravado keeps it watchable, though even that may be a close call for many ...
