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List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $18.49 You Save: $1.5 Features • Anamorphic • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2002 DVD Release : 08 June, 2004 |
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City of God description Like cinematic dynamite, City of God lights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion. The titular favela is home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's ambitious 20-year timeframe, into cutthroat killers, drug lords, and feral survivors. In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a nonprofessional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul. With enough visual vitality and provocative substance to spark heated debate (and box-office gold) in Brazil, codirectors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund tackle their subject head on, creating a portrait of youthful anarchy so appalling--and so authentically immediate--that City of God prompted reforms in socioeconomic policy. It's a bracing feat of stylistic audacity, borrowing from a dozen other films to form its own unique identity. You'll flinch, but you can't look away. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Personified Through The Lives Of Children., 2 Sep 2007 |
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In the 1960s, Cidade De Deus is already the most violent favela - neighbourhood - of Rio De Janeiro. Over the years, drugs and guns flood the area, making all-out gang war inevitable. Aspiring photographer Sandro must try to survive and stay clean if he is to escape. My Review: Guns, murder, rape, shootings and children? Obviously something not associated with most film drama; especially crime dramas. Here were are given an accomplished photographers graphic childhood - to - adulthood experiences, somehow engraved into your mind, account and involvement with Rio de Janeiro's most deadly of thugs and hoodlums. Usually regarded as a cheaper and more grittier, Goodfellas, South American style. Where everywhere in the world, there is a director's take on that countries gangster masterpiece, somehow trying to wield Scorsese tradition. Nonetheless, since the audience is on for a two-hour-plus Brazilian movie, which might not show without some strong encouragement. City Of God is the representation of Goodfellas in South America. Whilst viewing this, you think that you would expect to see a sassy and more exotic Goodfellas styled action crime drama rolled into one with enough blood, maybe some sex, and benefited with an excellent viewing satisfaction. Though when watching this you feel as if a complete nut-case has smacked you three ways across the face. The real astonishing thing is that where in most films, the adults are represented as power hungry, conservative, calm looking, vigilantly violent, and with a side order of repressed aggression; we are given children and teenagers. It feels like the child-staring 'Bugsy Malone' influence has rubbed off onto this Brazilian adaptation of Goodfellas. Based on Paulo Lins' eyewitness testimony of the bloody turf war, possibly exaggerated, which for years raged in Rio de Janeiro's most notorious slum, City Of God includes enough ineffaceable characters and extraordinary stories to fill several good films. Director Fernando Meirelles shepherds this wealth of material in a dizzying variety of ways, finding - even after two hours of gun battles - new ways to shoot and edit a sequence. Jumping from story to story, showing the needed to know details and not blatantly filling up screen time. The unusual thing to note is that he doesn't focus too much per story, and knows where to tie the knots before it feels dragged. In addition, with not the influence of the episodic flashback structure, or even because in gurning, gun-toting ZA Pequeno, City Of God does boast a jabbering psychotic that can be as every bit as compelling and unpredictable as Joe Pesci's Tommy. You are left to wonder whom is more the unpredictable and violently edged gangster. Even with the amazing editing, the film's real ace is the kids. Through an exhaustive series of childhood innocence to gang violence. The scene in which two young kids must decide whether they want to be shot in the hand or the foot contains some of the most powerful acting ever committed to celluloid. Overwhelmingly upsetting and this is the one scene that particularly sticks in frame of mind. Powerful stuff. Verdict: Released in 2002, it's still vastly popular amongst the viewing public. If you have the idea of an evening indoors watching gangster classics, this would certainly be one at the top of the pile. 9/10 |
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