Roller coaster ride through life in the favilas of Rio and its gang culture

Rating: 10/10 (9 June 2008)

This is so far the only movie in a foreign language that I have seen, but I understood this film perfectly. City of God is excellent, mesmerising and in a lot of cases sad, sad because the only way these kids are going to make a living is through gangs and violence. However this is the story of a boy who leaves the gang culture and becomes a photographer by leaving the gang culture that killed his older brother. Overrall this a great movie, it captures the audiences attention by showing people in the richer countries (United Kingdom, America) what life is like on the streets of one of the worlds poorer countries (in this case Brazil).