Fernando Meirelles

The Brazilian film City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund provides an insiders look on the lives of inner-city young adults involved in organized crime as they attempt to survive and navigate the slums in which they live. The film, loosely based on real life events, is a commentary on the cyclical nature of violence in the titular City of God, a slum located in Rio de Janeiro. The film chooses to document the rise and fall of crime in Rio de Janeiro that took place from the 1960s

Brazil. Is this criticism justified? ‘There are…two kinds of film makers: one invents an imaginary reality; the other confronts an existing reality and attempts to understand it, criticise it…and finally, translate it into film’ Fernando Biri, 1979[1] Fernando Meirelles’s City of God (2002) has provoked critical discussion concerning its representation of the Brazilian working class since its release[2]. The film has been described as both disturbing and electrifying for its brutal realism

The City of God is based on a true story that takes place in Brazil during the 1960’s. The city is under great poverty as many of its inhabitants where forced into the city due to flooding and other disasters. The vast increasing population from places all over creates an even bigger mess in the City of God with unemployment, over population, and little resources for food and water. For the towns people that means do what you can to survive and hope that you one day make it out of the City of God

City of God mixes with furious energy as it falls into the story of the slum gangs of Rio de Janeiro. Spectacular and disturbing, promptly involved with its characters. City of God has been compared with the film "GoodFellas," and holds a fair comparison due to its great story. The movie takes place in slums constructed by the government of Rio to separate the poor people from the city center. They have grown into places crowded with life, color, music and excitement and also with danger, law is

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

“City of God,” direct by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund tells the tales of numerous different citizens growing up in the poverty stricken slums of Rio de Janerio. The story takes place between the end of the 1960’s and goes up until the beginning of the 180’s all the while interweaving the lives of citizens and explain why the slums are the way they are, and why each character behaves the way they do. The concept of time is incredibly important throughout the entirety of the movie and is made

The innocence of Brazilian lower class children are lost in both films ,City of God directed by Fernando Meirelles, and in Pixote directed by Hector Bebenco. In both of these films the loss of innocence stems from a lack of authoritative power and most importantly the lack of a familial structure. This lack of innocence derives from the lower class socio-economic status the youth are born into. The children and teenagers are able to gain an astonishing amount of power when introduced to violent lifestyle

The Constant Gardener, the 2005 intellectual thriller directed by Fernando Meirelles, describes the amount of power given to pharmaceutical companies, and strongly illustrates how important it is for public health officials to regulate and monitor drug companies that are actively involved in the health care industry. In this film, we see the British and Swedish pharmaceutical corporations exploit the health conditions of Africans living in Kenya, and use them to test a new anti-tuberculosis drug

It is October 31 st on Tuesday morning at 10:30 A.M as Fernando is getting ready for the day that most kids wait for Halloween, but he starts his day by eating breakfast with his family ,he is the only child . He goes alone because he thinks it’s less work, even though Fernando gets lonely sometimes just because he can’t talk to anyone while he goes trick or treating.. After his family were done with breakfast he hurried outside and went in his car to go to the store really quick. My mom

Viewers are loving the show Billion Dollar Wreck on History. Now everyone is curious about the fact that Martin Bayerle actually spent time in jail for manslaughter. This was years ago before the show, but Martin's past is coming up now that he has joined a new reality show. He is the lead of the show and Martin is trying to find treasure that he believes could be worth billions. Starcasm shared details about Martin Bayerle's time in jail and what landed the treasure seeker behind bars over 10 years