City of God Spoilers!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2017)

With the name city of god, you would expect a more upbeat movie that is based around religion. Instead the movie depicts the horrors of organized crime in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. As the movie continues you to begin to see a pattern occur for many of the people that live in this area. As characters are raised in these in violet areas they eventually become violent themselves. It becomes a viscous cycle of a constant struggle of power for each generation since they see the power and money that could be obtained if they go into organized crime. This is seen in the ending where the character "Lil Zé is murdered by his own gang members since he lost some of his power and showed the children who murdered him how to obtain power in organized crime. This ending particularly shows that the city is never going to fix itself. It will have another generation that will become more violent and strive for power like the beginnings of Lil Zé career. This gives the characters in the city of god to run away from the city or to commit crimes.
While this theme is worth watching the movie by itself, it has a unique cinematography where every scene feels it is in a pseudo- documentary that follows the life of two characters which are Rocket and Lil Zé. When they are children the entire scene uses a light and kind of goldish tone to every shot. But as they grow up the lighter tone becomes darker. This helps show the innocence of the children has faded away as all of them has at least scene or commit serious crimes. This film entirely is an excellent film which is worth seeing due to its brilliant cinematography and themes.