The mayor states, “If the favelas were a city,it would be the 9th most populated in the Brazil.” Ferdando Mairelles a film director does an excellent job at showing how people actually live. Therefore a great movie like City of God must be judged by criteria of content, technical excellence, and overall quality. Without content; plot and originality, City of God would not have become such success internationally. The film is following a narrator Rocket, a boy who aspires to be a photographer. He grew up in City of God never wanting to follow "The Tender Trio", one of which was his brother, Goose, they are Robin Hoods, giving part of the earnings to people of the city. He tells a story of another boy Lil’Dice later knows as Lil’Ze, a psychopath who becomes most famous drug lord with his best friend Benny, they are controlling the city during the 70’s and 80’s. Rocket begins his photography career by pictures of his friends, especially Angelica his love interest. There is peace upon City of God, which is kept by Benny, and the only thing that Lil’Ze wants to do is eliminate his last rival Carrot. As Rocket tells later that Angelica and Benny
The mayor states, “If the favelas were a city,it would be the 9th most populated in the Brazil.” Ferdando Mairelles a film director does an excellent job at showing how people actually live. Therefore a great movie like City of God must be judged by criteria of content, technical excellence, and overall quality. Without content; plot and originality, City of God would not have become such success internationally. The film is following a narrator Rocket, a boy who aspires to be a photographer. He grew up in City of God never wanting to follow "The Tender Trio", one of which was his brother, Goose, they are Robin Hoods, giving part of the earnings to people of the city. He tells a story of another boy Lil’Dice later knows as Lil’Ze, a psychopath who becomes most famous drug lord with his best friend Benny, they are controlling the city during the 70’s and 80’s. Rocket begins his photography career by pictures of his friends, especially Angelica his love interest. There is peace upon City of God, which is kept by Benny, and the only thing that Lil’Ze wants to do is eliminate his last rival Carrot. As Rocket tells later that Angelica and Benny