City of God is a Brazilian movie direct by Fernando
Meirelles released in Brazil in 2002, and filmed in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro
and be about a war between Zé Pequeno and Mané Galinha, both are drug traffickers.
The director was wanted film in any suburb
of Brazil, and that his movie was up very realist, for this, He doesn’t contract
famous actors, but an unknown actors and suburb’s people. This made a very interesting
movie, because you can feel the emotions as if was true emotions.
This movie is to any people that like
Latin-Americans movies, and the actions movies or see violence and blood in the
movies.
The shooting was with many anecdotes; the
director was being point a weapon from a boy in the suburb´s shooting. The
principal actor was a man from the suburb, and he has film with a camera one
scene. In E.E.U.U. removed the guns in a
photograph that promote the movie in Brazil.
This film was very important for
Latin-American cinema, because was nominate to Oscar awards in 2003 to best
director, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, and best film editing.
Don´t won in this timeliness, but the public give a good evaluation.
