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City of God (2002 Movie)
A movie directed by Fernando Meirelles
Like cinematic dynamite,City of God lights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion. The titularfavelais home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's … see full wiki
Cast:
Alice Braga,
Matheus Nachtergaele,
Seu Jorge,
Alexandre Rodrigues,
Jonathan Haagensen,
Leandro Firmino da Hora,
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Director:
Fernando Meirelles
Genre:
Drama,
Foreign
Release Date:
January 17, 2003
MPAA Rating:
R
6 reviews about City of God (2002 Movie)
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phenomenal movie!! moving and beautiful to look at.
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Life is hard and difficult. Unfortunately, for many people in the world life is also unbearably brutal. Living in the United States we often forget that, even if we grew up in impoverished small towns or in the slums of the inner city. CITY OF GOD is a film that examines the brutality of humanity in a housing project that is part of Rio de Janeiro. CITY OF GOD is the name of a housing project built in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. From watching the movie, it seemed to me that … more
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Pros: Everything. Cons: Nothing. (some may want to beware of extreme violence) The Bottom Line: See it. Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie's plot. Yeah, I can’t even come up with a title to do this movie justice. I just absolutely loved it. This is movie #6 of my film class, coming from the favelas (poverty-stricken areas, basically) of Brazil. I don’t even have any goofy quips to start … more
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review by liago4.
January 17, 2006
City of god is a film that you have to see to know how good you have it. These kid's are faced with everything from murder to drugs and it doesn't stop there. Not only do they have to live in an environment filled with crime some of them take part in it before they even hit age 10 and what's crazy is that this is based on a true story. This is a very rugged film as you see children that must do this to survive and the rise and fall of one child that did this for the rush and to satisfy a hunger … more
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review by MzJen_2_review.
November 25, 2005
I had rented this out from the library and after I've finished viewing it you are left wondering about the irony of the title. It is not long in the movie where you realize that the City of God is a place totally forgotten by everybody. Still, that is the name that the government of Brazil gave to the housing developments outside Rio, constructed in the early `60s to hold thousands of people. Those slums, known as "the favelas", eventually led to the isolation of poor people from the city center, … more
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This film attacks with images which resemble predatory birds flying at us at supersonic speed, trying to claw out our eyes with their talons. Paradoxically, the film also numbs us to the relentless carnage it so graphically portrays. Directed by Fernando Meirelles with invaluable assistance from Katia Lund and set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro (a squalid and violent area known as "City of God"), the film's narrator is Buscape ("Rocket"), an amateur photographer. Listing other actors and the names … more
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