City of god

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2016)

City of God is a great movie for countless different reasons. One thing this movie does very well is create an authentic, gritty feeling around it. It's been said that the director cast multiple untrained actors from various slums around brazil due to lack of professional Brazilian actors, and to create the same grittiness I previously mentioned. More than half of the movie consists of Gun fights between Knockout Neds gang and Lil Ze's gang. The story line is told very well, as it starts when rocket, who narrates the movie, is just a little kid, but not yet a big part of the movie. The movie really gets deeper into the story when Lil Ze, who at the time was called Lil Dice, kills rockets brother. The movie peaks however when fellow hood Blacky kills Benny, Lil Ze's best friend and partner in crime at his farewell party, as he decided to leave with his girlfriend. The acting in the movie is really good even though these actors aren't professional, and the story was well written. This is a really solid movie that i enjoyed a lot.