City Of God : Movie Analysis

City of God is based on a true story that takes place in the '60s in Rio de Janeiro about two boys growing up in the neighborhood take on different paths in life. A child who wanted to prove himself, became a merciless drug lord, who killed , raped, robbed and threatened in order to gain power. The other kid, Rocket, witnessed the violence going on in the neighborhood around him and became a photographer. This film demonstrated two paths people growing up in this environment could take and showed the result of their choices. These choices were affected by how good of a role model they had. Lil Zee never really had a positive role model, but rocket has his brother to guide him. Lil zee that lived a more dangerous and violent

In the novel Open City by Teju Cole, the main character Julius is a multiracial man. Throughout the novel, it became evident that one of his flaws was that he seemed to have a problem forming relationships with others. The main reason for this was because of the abundance of discrimination in the world. Many individuals judge one another based on their race, religion, ethnicities, etc. Julius’s thoughts and actions show the extremely negative impact that judging others can have on people.

The City of God is based on actual events that occurred in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960's and 1970's. The movie is about the rise and fall of a fearsome sociopath gang leader Li'l Ze, who reigned as king of the drug lords during the 70's. The first part of the movie illustrates some of the forces that mold Li'l Ze into the man he becomes, while the second half shows his ruthless leap to power, followed by the war he wages against opposing gang leaders Carrot and Knockout Ned. The film is narrated by Rocket, a photographer who exists on the outskirts of Li'l Ze's circle of dominance and control. In the film the city is filled with ruthless acts of

The film titled City of God (2002) by directors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund highlights several issues concerning urban planning. In particular, the movie focuses on the social problems that develop with the emergence of highly-populated cosmopolitan cities like Rio de Janeiro. The entire film is shot in a favela, where gang-related activities are frequent. A critical analysis of the movie would reveal several other themes related to the planning of urban centers. Therefore, by using contents of the film, it would be possible to assess the trivial issues of solving planning problems in modern cities. Rio de Janeiro represents the many cities of developing and emerging economies that face serious planning and social problems as revealed in the film the City of God.

When looking down an alleyway with limited visibility, there can be unforeseen outcomes which gives the lack predictability and produces fear. As reported by Rosenzweig, “Today there are 100,000 gang members vs. 12,000 cops in Chicago. Up to 40 percent of all homicides in major cities nationwide from 2009 to 2011 were gang-related. Gang members were responsible for 61 percent of all homicides in 2011, up from 58.7 percent in 2010.” What Rosenzweig is presenting is that each year, homicide crimes rates and gang population increase dramatically as each year progresses. The significance of the photo of the alley is that it is a very rare opportunity to observe kids playing in the front of their house because the adolescents are vulnerable to the

The film City of God portrays the life of the youth living in one Brazil’s most dangerous favela’s Cidade de Deus or City of God. Through a sequential storytelling style, the film is broken in to mini stories that document the rise and fall of the main characters who live in City of God. Although there are central characters with which the narrative follows. the objective of the film is an attempt to provide a portrait of the favela, City of God. The favela become a character. To better understand the film and its social commentary about life in a favela it should be dissected and compared through the lens of the hood film sub-genre. The hood film genre gain popularity in the 1990’s with the success of American films such as Boyz n the Hood, Juice and Menace II Society.

City of God, is a film about the slums in Brazil, which demonstrate the environment of young teens in an urban population where high levels of crime are committed. Instead of giving them the opportunity to grow and become knowledgeable, the teens are being forced upon to stay in the ghetto and engage in illegal crimes. Education, was a privilege that was taken for granted in the hood, but it was a resource of social mobility. In Rio, the youth had to choose between an education or selling drugs on the street to help support their low-income families. The drug industry would open up increasing chances of economic mobility. The urban planning of government housing in the slums

The slums serve as a centralised location within the story and serve as a prominent setting within the story in lower Manhattan where the working class would end up as well as being away from native upper class citizens, based near the docks or factories for mass production items. Throughout the slums in the story, they are a tool used show to signs of repute, where children with no forms of authority run wild in gangs where violence seems to run rampant. Violence throughout is described vividly and when violence occurs it appears to be animalistic.

In the movie Gods and Generals it shows the battle of bull run. The movie effectively represents the battle of bull run and sticks true to the source material besides very small details. In the movie it shows how jackson men stood in a wall formation which was a called a stone wall. This piece of evidence accurately shows us that They stood in a wall formation because Mr.adreons notes and lesson he said they stood in a stone wall and they showed us this in the movie. Another piece of evidence would be be the rebel scream. The rebel scream struck fear into the union soldiers with many describing it as ear piercing screeching sound. In Mr.Adreons lesson he talked about this and the movie does a good job representing this. For my last piece of

Every person’s definition of boring is completely different. My personal definition of “boring” is something that doesn’t stand out. Yellow is an atrocious color, and it stands out from all the basic colors that we see every day. Yellow stands out like a crying child needing attention that will not stop crying no matter what you try to do to make it stop. It can also be an eyesore in someone’s perspective. Back to the cover of City Lights; it does not have any outstanding color variations or anything of that matter. My mind instantly threw a red flag wailing boring across my thoughts. I sighed in disbelief that the movie wouldn’t be. Firstly, the movie starts off as every black and white movie does with cheesy sounds and clown-like jokes from Charlie Chaplin.

The film portrays Tokyo after the destruction caused by World War III. Tokyo has now turned into neo-Tokyo, a dystopian society built from the ruins. In just thirty years the government has managed to help build the economy up, allowing the city to prosper. With all of this progress and prosperity, the people have become self centered, making a social and economic gap. The gap has grown so significant that the wealthy cling to what money they have and those on the bottom suffer with nothing. There does not seem to be much help from city officials, as well. They only focus on their own advancement, which causes problems for the citizens. Riots occur in the streets and gangs are becoming more violent resulting in terrorizing the good citizens.

In this movie, it is very clear that these people are looked at very poorly. People think they are so dirty. People think the people living in the slums are lazy because they cannot work themselves out of the situation they are in. If you are in poverty you are not good enough. It shows a big difference how we treat our people of poverty and how they treat their people of poverty. It is quite sad.

In 1980 a low-budget South African film was released which over the years has not only spawned a number of sequels, but took a rather humorous look at the cultural differences between so-called "primitive" cultures and the modern world. The film was called "The Gods Must Be Crazy," was written and directed by South African filmmaker Jamie Uys, and called by the New York Magazine "pure play, an amiable shaggy-dog story in which the awesome wilderness serves as an adaptable prop." (Denby, 47) It told the story of a Ju/hoansi bushman who journeyed to the end of the Earth to discard a Coke bottle; and along the way encountered the modern world for the very first time. Modern society was presented through the eyes of a person who had never encountered it before, and while the interaction was often portrayed as hilarious, it also provided a interesting view of the modern world from a most unlikely source.

A common theme in literature, television, and cinema, are societies and their drive to reach perfection. Strives towards building a utopia are the basis for most science fiction works. However, no such perfect true utopia may ever really exist. Even if things seem perfect on the outside, there is always an elite class, and underprivileged class Everything revolves around money.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes a slum as “a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganisation”. Though there are multitudes of definitions for the word “slum”, few of them are actually very differing from each other – generally, it is mutually agreed that a slum is an crowded urban district inhabited by many people who are affected by poverty. One district that displays these qualities is the area of Dharavi. The third-largest slum in the world, Dharavi is located in the west of Mumbai, India’s capital city (refer to Figure 1).