Anyone seen City Of God?

[*estrella*]

I saw it yesterday, it was GREAT!!! I heard it was good , but didn't think it would be that good...

Anyone else seen it?

[Ian]

good movie

[bunk]

excellent movie

[extreme_left_ak]

One of my top ten movies!!!!!!!!!

On what chanel did you saw it

[extreme_left_ak]

But i still like che's movie


motorcycle diaries

[SittingBull47]

yes, city of god was indeed a great movie, much longer then I expected the first time I saw it.
(no spoilers) The only thing I couldn&#39;t stomach was the part with the confrontation between <lil dice&#39;s> gang and those 4 year old kids...jesus I can&#39;t watch stuff like that.

[bushdog]

I&#39;ve seen it and i thought it was excellent. Also in my top ten.

[*estrella*]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2005, 01:28 PM


On what chanel did you saw it
I rented it&#33;&#33;&#33; It hasn&#39;t been on television as far as I know...



The only thing I couldn&#39;t stomach was the part with the confrontation between <lil dice&#39;s> gang and those 4 year old kids...jesus I can&#39;t watch stuff like that.

Yes, that was a hard scene, had trouble not to turn my head away...

[dreams are free mofo]

great movie, saw it then bought it as soon as I could.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

City of God is one of my all-time favorite movies. Fernandao Meirelles, the director, is coming out with a new movie this year called The Constant gardener. Looks awesome.

City of God is just so amazing. Great music also.
The guy who played Knockout Ned, Seu Jorge, also happens to be a good musician, if you&#39;re into Brazilian pop music. He&#39;s the fella from Life Aquatic who did the acoustic Bowie covers in Portuguese.

[Tupac-Amaru]

Yep...good stuff...real good film.

[Taiga]

It&#39;s super&#33;
I enjoyed it a lot.

[gnat]

I enjoyed it

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

It was fucking great. One of the best film that I ever saw.

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

yeha it probably my top 15 ... i love the timeline element of the story telling

[female_socialist]

I saw this film three years ago...This film is still my top 10 of film even though I have seen difficult films three years.....Wonderful film. :D I bought this film music....

[RevolverNo9]

mm, superlative film. Beautifully shot, very enaging, realist, yeah.

[bolshevik butcher]

I think it looks really good.

[Palmares]

Great FILM. *Throws used silicon breasts at people who used the term "movie"*

[che's long lost daughter]

I think the movie or film (as Cthentar points out), was shown here in my country a few years ago. I wanted to see it but my friends wanted to watch another movie and I don&#39;t like to watch movies all by myself so I ended up not watching it at all. What a pity, I have heard a lot of great things about it. :(

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It&#39;s my favorite film.

[Ian]

it&#39;s not a competition

[antieverything]

I always recommend City of God to friends who are really into Pulp Fiction (which is a damn good movie, I&#39;ll admit) because I think City of God has some similar presentation aspects, pulls them off better than PF and does it all while giving a realistic and disturbing portrayal of social and personal violence...Pulp Fiction obviously glorifies violence a great deal.

[Big_Don]

The City of God is a well directed flim.

One of the pivotal scenes in the film takes place in a drug dealer’s apartment, where Rocket has the opportunity to exact revenge. His decision at that point has far reaching ramifications for him, and the outcome of the film. Yet, as the narrator, he draws little attention to it, and continues to tell the intertwining stories of everyone else. The result is a highly challenging and realistic film that delivers a moral without being pedantic, and even demonstrates a way to break the cycle. As our nation seems to be on the verge of starting another cycle of repeating violence, reenacting the same story, even with the same characters or revenge-seeking sons of them, perhaps it would be well worth the effort to have a screening of this film at the White House. With any luck, they will realize that this is not a Brazilian film in Portuguese about slums in the late 20th century, but instead a mirror for all of us today.

For its brilliant and engaging storytelling, and unrelenting and undeniable commentary on human brutality and hope, City of God gets a BDA (Big Don award) :D

[Dwarf Kirlston]

Cidade de Deus is a good feature motion picture. I watched it way after it came out.

Another big brazilian feature motion picture is about a communist woman, Olga Benario, who went to brazil with a very popular communist leader ,Julio Prestes, who had tried to institute communist revolution in the years before the dicatorship of Getulio Vargas in Brazil. The Motion Picture is based on the biography, which was pretty widely distributed with a pro-Protagonist POV. Both the Motion Picture and book are called "Olga" -the book is pretty detailed on what happened to the plan of revolution that they tried to institute together.

[che's long lost daughter]

I saw the film today on video, which I bought because it was on sale. I enjoyed the movie/film. I thought it was nasty and brutish, at the same time truly compelling. It does traffic on violence, I agree with antieverything but violence was used to tell a story. It instantly became one of my favorite movies.