Oh my god! Try to understand Brazil to understand the movie

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2003)

I´ve seen an comment by howard.schumann about City of God... I was surprised! Because he said a lot of untruth information about Brazil.
To understand the movie, you have to understand Brazil. This is not an history class, but some things must be revealed.
Mr. Howard Schuman said that Brazil has 120 million people. In fact, Brazil have 185 million people (a little diference). He also said that 50% of the population are under 21. Lie. Less than 30% are under 21. "Favelas" are´t government housing projects like he said. Favelas are places where poor people built their houses. They don´t have governments agreement to do this, they just do because they don´t have any other place to live.
The movie shows an reality unknowed by the most of the brazilians. Meirelles shows the truth about my country. Nice worker people, surrounded by some disperated bad guys, who´s trying to live, trying to eat, stealing and killing for their lives.
Brazilian people are very nice. They smile even when they´re broken. They laugh even when they´re hungry. They help each other even when they can´t help theirselves.
We have much problems. Hunger, corruption, violence. But Brazil is an Huge country. Almost the same size of the USA. And we are not only favelas and natural reserves, spiders, monkeys, jungles and kidnapers. We are beautiful and nice people, beautiful and huge cities, beautiful natural reserves. And we also have 80 floors buildings, high military, health and scientific technology.
We´re not a poor country. In fact Brazil are the most rich country in the hole world in natural resources and water. Our problem is that 80% of our money are with 20% of our people.
So if you´ve enjoyed this movie, GREAT. But please, don´t feel sorry for us, because we don´t need this.