Lives up to the hype and so much more

Rating: 10/10 (20 August 2009)

This is the story of one guy, who lived in some poor slum.
but it also the story of the slum itself... how the slums destroy people and turn them into animals.
the main character is not the main character- he is just a passive observer as we are.
the other characters are equally just observers.
the main character is poverty and the slums it creates, the lives it creates and destroys. the main character is greed and how it corrupts and destroys friendship and love. the main character is how the soul copes with constant pain, and how fragile life and death truly is.
the main character is our very nature...
City of God- captures a moment and a place, but it could be any moment and any other place, it captures the circle of life and death... mans worst emotions and desires, his very nature being brought forward... and in all that darkness we see one light trying to make sense of it all *SPOILER* i added a spoiler because i want to talk about the ending.
The end may seem like a "good" ending- our "main" character goes on to become one of Brazil's best newspaper reporters. however, that isn't the end of the film at all...
thw real end is watching the main antagonist die and watching children take his place.... no, not children killing him, but the slums themselves killing him, devouring first his soul and then his body... and watching the circle repeat with a new generation. the end is simply the truth- the poor will always suffer, the rich will always prosper, and the only way to become like the rich is to be more ready to tred over others on your way to the top.
This film isn't about a slum in Brazil, its about human nature