I could not stop repeating to myself how badasslycool this film was while watching it. The shots, fast cuts, and storytelling put together really make a masterpiece.
City of God portrays a story of the vicious cycle intertwined within hate, killing, and crime. It’s set in the slums where kids who own guns run around mischievously stealing to survive, at least that’s how the story starts off. Rocket is our storyteller, he’s not involved in all that, he aspires to become a photographer. He tells us the story of the “tender trio,” who were the first to start all the trouble. We end up back in the 60s where Rocket is just a kid and follow the tender trio on their journey. They decide to go ahead and rob a motel and leave a kid, Lil Dice, to keep watch. They never saw what was coming, they weren’t the killing kind, they only used scare tactics. Turns out Lil Dice had a hunger for killing even has a youngster, we watch him take over the City of God over the years, it isn’t so hard when you don’t stop to talk and let your gun take care of everything.
The cycle is never ending, no matter how young the kids are they crave for control and to kill; even after they see how bad things get they still want the same things. The tender trio started this sort of domino effect and younger and younger kids got into this mess. The tender trio lead Lil Dice into it, they even hand him his first gun and Lil Dice does the same thing, he hands these eight year olds the guns they’ll use to cause more pain and torment to the people of the slums.
The ending brought chills to my spine, to think that it was all a true story just makes me sick and brings so many questions about faith and goodness to mind.
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