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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.
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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...
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.
At the start you get a great shot of the favela in development in the 60's, every govt house is neat and lined up like the USA suburbs, and then 20 years later everything is piled up, layers upon layers of precarious constructions. In "city of god" you can see that every character has its own motivations, its own dreams, ambitions..whatever.
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 ...
Aug 5, 2013 · By Donna Bowater. Rio de Janeiro. Ten years after a Rio de Janeiro slum called Cidade de Deus (City of God) burst into the world's consciousness with the hit film of the same name, very little has ...
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Mar 24, 2023 · AR: In the last 10 years I have seen diversity grow on screens, I feel more represented today, here in Brazil as the environment has been undergoing a revolution that follows the rest of the world, I think that City of God was very important in that sense too, because it was the first time that community residents saw themselves represented and in a beautiful display on the silver screen since ...
