Another Side Of Brazil

Rating: 9/10 (12 October 2015)

Among countless merits it enjoys, this is a most conspicuous one: It shows a strong sense of reality. Since it is based on a true story, it demonstrates another side of Brazil, one which consists of chaos, crime and death. Despite several objective reasons on how "City of God" come into existence, people's ignorance is the main cause. By this I mean, Neither rich people nor the government want to have anything to do with "City Of God", thus their deliberate ignorance of poor people should be held responsible for all the misfortune that happened. In this deserted city, poverty breeds crime and crime leads to more poverty. As a consequence, it is hard for people to leave the city and even if they do, they always get dragged back.As we can see, the only way to break this wretched cycle is education. Fair and quality education will enable kids of the next generation to have more options other than become another gang member.