A dramatic scene where the camera casts an aerial view over the city-like slum proves how unorganized and chaotic these slums can look. All the buildings and structures are not built in sequential patterns, rather wherever a scrap of land can be built on. When the transformation of the small apartment to the drug lord’s “office” was being described, it depicted what the inside of an individual favela looked like. Dingy air fills the tiny apartment covered in filth over the worn, plastic flooring and entire surfaces. It is cramped and goes from bad to worse as the already indecent stove burner becomes a piece of scrap metal, and the barely livable space becomes infested by drugs. Only a movie could so descriptively show the horrible living conditions in people’s make-shift homes. Even the lighting enhances the dinginess that is so prevalent in these shantytowns. Moreover, the visual of wardrobe accurately matches that of true documentaries. Most people are dressed in rags or home-made clothing that is neither fitting nor sanitary, showing signs of unwashed grime and
A dramatic scene where the camera casts an aerial view over the city-like slum proves how unorganized and chaotic these slums can look. All the buildings and structures are not built in sequential patterns, rather wherever a scrap of land can be built on. When the transformation of the small apartment to the drug lord’s “office” was being described, it depicted what the inside of an individual favela looked like. Dingy air fills the tiny apartment covered in filth over the worn, plastic flooring and entire surfaces. It is cramped and goes from bad to worse as the already indecent stove burner becomes a piece of scrap metal, and the barely livable space becomes infested by drugs. Only a movie could so descriptively show the horrible living conditions in people’s make-shift homes. Even the lighting enhances the dinginess that is so prevalent in these shantytowns. Moreover, the visual of wardrobe accurately matches that of true documentaries. Most people are dressed in rags or home-made clothing that is neither fitting nor sanitary, showing signs of unwashed grime and