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City of God VHS

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Alexandre Rodrigues (Actor), Matheus Nachtergaele (Actor), Fernando Meirelles (Director), Rated:

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Actors: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Writers: Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins
Producers: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Bel Berlinck, Daniel Filho, Donald Ranvaud
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Rated:
R
Restricted
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Miramax
VHS Release Date: June 8, 2004
Run Time: 130 minutes
Average Customer Review: 1,024 customer reviews
ASIN: B0001WTUPI
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,597 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Excellent, graphic depiction of life in the favelas

May 5, 2017

Format: Prime VideoVerified Purchase

This movie had me grimacing at various points. It is a graphic depiction of life in the Rio favelas. If you can handle some very violent scenes, it is an excellent movie and well worth watching, particularly if you are interested in the Rio favelas.

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Connie (She who hikes with dogs)

Violent, bittersweet, raw

September 3, 2017

Format: Prime VideoVerified Purchase

This movie will linger in your mind for weeks after viewing it. It is raw, it is violent, it is emotional.

The lives of two boys are featured here, both from the same favela, both with many of the same friends. They live in the slums were drugs, murder and police raids are daily events. Even young children are swept into the violence. It's how the 'hood survives. Can making different choices in life really end with such drastic differences?

I thought at times the movie dragged too long, especially in the second half when it was more of the same heartless gundowns. The last 15 minutes, however, offer a bittersweet rap up of the two lives and the different paths that were chosen. It's beautifullly directed and well acted.

2 people found this helpful

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Powerful but VERY violent

August 27, 2013

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This movie gives you in 2 hours what the Wire gives you in a full season. It's tragic and mostly real, and well worth watching. But it is not for the squeamish. The violence, much of it senseless violence, never stops.

The one note of unreality actually undermines it substantially. The main villain's best friend seems to be a really good guy. How could such a Really Good guy be friends with such a completely amoral monster? Either he wasn't really such a good guy, or the monster wasn't really such a monster. Since the movie is meant to depict events that really took place, this moral exaggeration makes it hard to believe any of it.

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Such a great movie!

June 15, 2017

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Watched it again after many many years...

Such a well made movie!

But so sad...Having lived in Brazil, I have seen the favelas and the crimes...

However, things have gotten better. I hope now with the corruption probe things will get even better.

God bless Brazil~

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Kasey M. Moctezuma

finally - an interesting educational movie

March 10, 2003

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This is one of the best movies that I have seen in a long time. It is a very thought provoking movie that just may shake up your preconceived notions about the way the world runs. Set in the '70's in the notorious slum of Rio, Cidade de Deus, this movie deals with issues relevant today - of poverty, oppression, violence, survival, getting ahead and staying alive. The movie is based on real events and is fast-paced and is well-written, directed and acted. You leave the theatre feeling as though you have experienced a taste of the slums of Rio, of the feelings of desperation. What is truly brilliant about this movie, is that from a socio-political level, this movie can be related to so many different cultures around the world - and why they are the way that they are - such as the children who are soldiers in Africa and in the Palestinian Territories - and why the situations are seemingly hopeless and beyond the comprehension of many in the rich western countries. This movie is a real eye-opener. (and don't worry, boring is not a word that applies to this movie!)

8 people found this helpful

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January 5, 2018

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

A classic and one of my favorites. If you haven't seen this and aren't afraid of subtitles, this is one of the best movies ever to come out of Brazil. This is definitely not a movie for children though...

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Amazing video, the real thing

April 29, 2017

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

Friend of mine told me about this movie. I lived in Brasil for 8 years, left at home there
One fantastic movie about the early days in RIO. Very real and totally blown away by this video

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No Redemption In The City Of God

May 27, 2007

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

The film explores the violent lives of young people living on the fringe of Rio in a delapidated housing project called the City Of God. Gang life, robbery, coldbloodedness marks a world devoid of much that is positive. The film is brutally honest about a side of life often ignored in developing countries. The characters are a mix of kids with nothing better to do and kids who have been turned into hardened killers.

Years ago another film Pixote explored the similar circumstances of Brazilian street kids and the characters were more sympathetic and fully realized than the characters in City Of God. Ultimately City Of God is worth viewing to peer into a subculture of violence and criminality fostered in an environment of dire poverty but it will leave you depressed since it offers no sense of hope or solution.

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