A real image of brazillian favelas portrait in a genious cinematic view

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2019)

It's amazing how most part of the cast is actual poor people from the real community of Cidade de Deus. They act with such naturalism that makes some of the critiques not take then as relatable. Same as their desumanized behavor. True is that thats the reality in the favelas of the Rio de Janeiro. And if its too hard, too desensetized for you. It should be. And if its unrelatable, its a problem in the audience.
Realism at side, the direction is so dinamic without getting too frenetic, that keeps us in the edge of the chair all the way. The screenplay travels between characters back and forth in a convoluted way, strange, but emulating the life in a place where no one matters. Only the flow of power, violence and greed matters and no one can be the protagonist even of their own lifes. As Cap. Nascimento from Tropa de Elite (another amazing brazillian movie) says : 'the system is a bitch'.