The man with the camera

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2005)

City of God, a "favela" in Rio.
The law is made here by drug dealers, sometimes challenged by criminal-kids, taking the killing as a game.
If you stay, you will be shot. If you run, you will be shot.
How can one survive in such a place as Cidade De Deus?
You can survive if you can take your distance.
You take your distance when you will understand Cidade De Deus so well that you can tell it.
And you will understand it so well that you can tell it if you are an artist.
This is the movie of Ze-Pequeno, the gangster, but also the movie of Buscape, the artist which looks at the City of God with the eyes of an artist and can tell it us through his camera.