This is reason there are movies

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2011)

When we get past the entertainment there is a hook in the soul that a true film portrays. It is a movie. It is a docudrama It is a long painful look at ourselves. The pleasure and gratification against the squalor and despair of the environment. The Juxtaposition of the protagonists and their inevitable showdown gives us extraordinary drama within the reality of the Sao Paulo ghetto. There are very few movies, books or plays than can hope to get here, Schindlers list, Shawshank redemption and Paths of Glory are a few that spring to mind as naked comments on the primal nature of man. This movie moves the primal nature into your face and keeps it there, unrelentingly. A must see movie in any definition.