This is not something I just watched but it remains as one of my favorite movies of all time, the rawness of it all armed with superb direction by Fernando Meirelles makes this a must see for avid movie goers. Some even described it as the Brazilian scarface.. City Of God! There is just something about this movie, its rawness and purity makes it a gem. The film provides no comfortable answers for disturbing problems it depicts. It centers around the growth of organized crime in a Rio de Janeiro suburb, between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '80s, with the closure of the film depicting the war between the drug dealer Lil Ze and Knockout Ned..The storytelling is breathtaking, its fast paced and the story unfolds itself in the end. The most relatable part about this film is that at the end of the movie, the photos of the real life people were put alongside the actors who played them, and the uncanny resemblance between the actor playing Knockout Ned (Seu Jorge) with the real person (Mane Galinha) was unbelievable. Many scenes remains unforgettable in this film, one of it involves a boy who had to shoot a younger boy in order to be accepted in the gang.. That scene was gruesome but it was the real deal and that was how most of the kids grew up in slums, bullets and blood is apart of their everyday lives, sad but true which only makes City Of God in a league of its own..
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