Yar, you be here: City of God > Customer Reviews
City of God Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 51 Reviews)
I'm 19 but didnt want to deal with that signing in business
This movie is sooo good. BUY IT!
My favorite "favela!"
I love Brasilia! My music is popular there so I decided to get into their culture. I learned Portuguese and watched many Brazilian films and this is a must see! Compared as a "South American Goodfellas," it's a gripping film. Depicting the lives of several friends, they all follow different roads in life, but that's the way it is. It can be touching, brutal, gritty, funny, and all in between, check it out! One of my favorite parts of the DVD is the real interview with those who truly survive in the favelas...
An exhilarating film experience...
It seems that repressed societies and low socio-economic environments provide an excellent backdrop, or impetus, for unique artistic and creative achievement.
This is evident in music i.e. Bob Marley hailed from the ghettos of Trenchtown, and The Beatles came from industrial Liverpool, but the above point is with particular reference to film making.
Films that highlight the detrimental impact of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the mass murder of Tutsis in Rwanda, the election process in Iran, or Eastern European women being sold into prostitution, all have one thing in common: They serve to open our eyes, and very often - hit home hard. These stories of suffering, hardship and turmoil transcend any particular place and region because they all relate to the human condition.
Fernando Meirelles' "City of God" is one such example. Set against the impoverished backdrop of the Brazilian `favelas' or ghettos, it's a vivid and powerful piece of film making that highlights social ills and the struggle of conscience.
Based on a true story, "City of God" provides an insight into the lives of characters that all emerge from similar backgrounds, their resulting attitudes, and the different choices they make. The film culminates on the streets of Rio De Janeiro's slums in the 1970s, where drugs, corruption, and crime are rampant, and the value for human life is practically non-existent.
The movie also importantly demonstrates the cyclical nature of life in such extreme and under-privileged conditions. The children of these slums (or "Runts" as they are referred to in the film) take to crime at an early age and are more concerned with getting hold of guns than going to school. There are exceptions, but for the majority of children born into this particular environment, a life of easy money in dealing drugs and robbing others far outweighs the incentive of an education and working an honest job.
Beautifully made and splendidly acted, this will keep you glued to the screen and prove to be an exhilarating film experience.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Next Page |
