Knowing more about third world exclusion vicious circle

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2003)

Yes. It is, indeed, a violent film. It`s shocking sometimes. And, sometimes, it is shocking how we betray ourselves laughing when watching some scenes that would make other people cry, or acting normally when situation claim us to react negatively to what we are seeing on the screen. If you feel like this, than maybe you've succeeded in becoming part of City of God`s world. That`s what happens when you live in a reality like this 24 h a day. Violence becomes usual and you start to see things in a different perspective. Or, I could say that, people have to get a life, even when their environment fights against them. Believe me. I live in Brazil, so, in some aspects, I know what it is. What else can I say? Well, just try to watch this movie with an open minded heart. It has a great plot and a great photography, but, to me, the most important of all is that this movie shows the universal problem of exclusion and opression and how things can turn into a vicious circle if there`s no one to break it.