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City of God (2002)
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The Rio de Janeiro housing development is a system of routes, lookouts and territories that its young residents learn before they can choose a future. Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund make movement through that space frighteningly consequential. Its kinetic storytelling is compelling, but the violence is severe and this constructed crime history should never stand in for the whole city.
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About City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.