City Of God

“15 miles from paradise, one man will do anything to tell the world everything.” This tagline is one of first thing audience can see by just looking at poster of a movie that won countless awards and is 21st in the list of top rated movies. City of God, is an unforgettable movie about the survival of two boys who take different path in live while growing up in brutal favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The movie is based on a novel of same name by Paulo Lins, who grew up there, left it and spends eight years writing the book. Cidade de Deus translated as City of God is favela where poor people. A favela is defined from Portuguese as slum established on outskirts of Rio. Favelas in Brazil are crowded, and according to Ricardo Geromel's
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