Genre: Crime/Drama
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Year Released: 2002
Country: Brazil
Run Time: 130 mins
Story: City of God follows a boy called Rocket through a portion of both his childhood and teenage years. He grows up in the slums, in the City of God where drug lords and hoodlums rule.
Response: City of God is quite powerful has some very creative shots and in a few great scenes really puts you inside the film. Moments in City of God feel very real and I am always reminded of one shockingly disturbing scene where Li'l Zé (the ruling gangster of the City of God) asks two young Runts (group of very young gangsters) whether he would rather be shot in the hand or the foot as punsihment for causing trouble. The moment is scary and the actors completly pull it off, there such a contrast between the young crying children and the laughing gangsters. City of God also pulls in one amazing side character Benny, he has such carisma and his character is well established.
Every time I watch the film I like it more and I have now seen it about 5 times, it does have it's small problems and the film can feel a little dragy through the middle or when the war starts, all in all the flow is never really effected too much and the good points way out number the bad.
Rating: Very Good
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