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24 sty 2003 · "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.
The film “City of God” (2002) opens with a riveting chase in a favela known as the Cidade de Deus (“City of God”). The focus is on a young man, the narrator nicknamed Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues), who finds himself caught between an armed gang and an escaped chicken.
A relative peace has come over the City of God under the reign of Li'L Zé, who avoids police attention by having an initiate kill a Runt. Zé plans to kill Carrot, but Benny talks him out of it. Ze' believes that Carrot is protecting the Runts in his section.
City of God is Brazil’s most critically acclaimed film of recent years. Based on the book of the same name by writer Paulo Lins, which in-turn was based on a true story, City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a violent, fast-paced movie that tells the tale of the residents of this Brazilian favela (slum).
City of God tells its story from the point of view of Buscapé / Rocket who functions for most of the story as a homodiegetic narrator. Although a principal character he is for much of the film outside the action as an observer, a reporter. He reconstructs the events we see in a series of flashbacks.
22 lip 2012 · City of God is not just another run-of-mill gangster movie. The gangsters of Rio de Janeiro are unique. The director pays attention to detail in showing the idiosyncrasies of these gangsters. The portrayal of these youngsters comes across as genuine.
City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles. Bráulio Mantovani's script is adapted from the 1997 novel written by Paulo Lins, but the plot is also loosely based on real events.
