City of God

[truthaddict11]

I just watched this movie. I thought it was pretty good but brutal, especially the scene where Li'l Ze has SteakandFries to chose which of the Runts to kill. Has anyone else seen this movie?

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Yeah its one of my faves, one of the few films I actually bothered to buy and watched a few times. (I also like Spanish so...)

A little disturbing but a great film, that scene is paticularly brutal, get the dvd and there is a documentary about the real life favellas.

[truthaddict11]

i thought the film was in portugese, i havent had a chance to watch the documentry yet, i turned off the DVD right after the clip with the real Knockout Ned. I'll have to watch it some day when i dont have to work.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

maybe it is portugese, I just enjoy that whole accent, kinda of language thingy if you get me.

Thats where the film gets really good by the way!

[Soul Rebel]

It is in portuguese. They speak portuguese in brazil, not spanish, which is where the whole thing takes place.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Arent you from Brazil? Excuse my ignorance on the whole language thing, eurocentricism and all that.

[Soul Rebel]

nope, from spain.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Oh its ATP who was born in Brazil, awfully confusing.

[Blackguard]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2004, 03:32 PM
It is in portuguese. They speak portuguese in brazil, not spanish, which is where the whole thing takes place.
Yes they speak portuguese because the colonists were Potuguese people. It was their only colony, but it was the biggest(and it sill is) in Latin America.
So i really liked the movie too, allthough i dont like gangsta movies. This one also had some other issues in it like personality of characters, ethnical conditions, poverty, govermant, ... It is a pretty cool movie!

[SittingBull47]

A friend and I have been looking everywhere for it, but to no avail. I'm dying to see it.

[truthaddict11]

its on DVD here in america, it isnt where you are? check where you usually buy or rent movies

[Hate Is Art]

isn't CoG the crow film? Crap i've made myself look stupid if it isnt!

[truthaddict11]

no it isnt

[ItalianFist]

the crow film is city of angels i think. and that movie sucks.

[Umoja]

City of Angels was such a horrible movie!

On the other hand City of God is probubly my favorite movie ever. I liked how subtle some of the things were. I saw it with my father, and he explained to me how subtle the racism was in the movie. Like when Benny (Bene?) races Tiago and tells Tiago to go buy him some clothes (because he knows in Rio they wouldn't sell stuff to a black guy). Really interesting stuff.

Also, it has my favorite line ever. "You should sniff coke, it's really far out." Haha, it was humorous and extremely depressing to hear a 16 year old talk about sniffing coke.

[red_ale]

City of God is an excellent movie. I couldn't bring myself to watch it dubbed though, i think it would take a huge chunk of authenticness out of it. Damn, I didn't know they had a documentary on the dvd about the real guys, I'll have to get my hands on a copy again to see that.

The story was pretty brutal, but fucking amazing, I love how almost every character was intertwined one way or another and what makes that even cooler is it's a true story.

[nakba]

Cidade de Deus was the best damn movie i have ever seen...



It's incredible!

the best thing about it is that instead of having a hand full of fucking superstars it has simple people form the guetto.
All the actors were recruited from the favelas, so they aren't just acting, they are representing the reality...

As someone said "Watching the city of God is a civic duty"







"Dadinho o caralho! Meu nome é Zé Pequeno porra!" hehehehe