Among the 5 best movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2011)

This movie is sure amazing. If it was a American movie, probably would receive higher rater here in IMDb. I fact, I am surprise the a foreign language movie receive so good reviews, because watch this movie in original language (I am Brazilian) is so much more involving than the dubbed version. The language itself plays a role, because there are a peculiar way of expression that the characters uses. Is sad to say that the power of words is lost in translation.
Anyway, this movie is among the 5 best movies of all time. I live in Brazil, I know what I talking: it's is not fiction. Rio de Janeiro has a real problem of poverty, crime and drugs, as showed in the movie (the movie real history happened some 30 years ago.
Fernando Meirelles, the director, is very nice guy, very humble e gifted.
This is not a exploitation movie as some haters say. Unfortunately, it is real. If not, I would agree that there's a lot of violence on screen, but wait... there's a huge distance between the fetishism of violence and the exposure of a real problem.
But above all the violence exposed, there's a felling of hope carried by the main character. Besides all the context of poverty that surrounds him, he not engaged to crime. Well, watch the movie...
A courageous, strong e very well done movie.