Fight and you'll never survive. Run and you'll never escape.
What happens if you grow up in one of the most criminal suburbs of Rio de Janeiro? Cidade de Deus (City of God, the name of the suburb) depicts the lives of a group of children who grow up in this suburb between the end of the 60's and the beginning of the 80's. One of them wants to become a photographer, another wants to rule Cidade de Deus. The result is a shocking story about children who act like adults, deal drugs, murder people and have to fight for their lives every single day. If there is some sort of hell on earth, it must have been in this suburb. This movie is based on a true story, which makes it even more shocking.
You should definitely watch this movie. Not just because of the story, but also because it is a visual masterpiece. Split screens, speedups, slow motion, jumps forward and backwards in time; all kinds of techniques are used and then make this movie stand out. On top of all, almost all of the actors in the movie are amateurs and some of them even grew up in Cidade de Deus.
Warning: most of the trailers spoil the the movie or make it sound like a Hollywood-story. So just avoid them and go watch the movie ;)
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