Victor Hugo once said, “Talk about your village and you’ll be universal.”
The film helps comprehend the forces that create young criminals and gang members everywhere.
This review in Variety provides a good summary.
A two-decade chronicle of the growth of drug trade and gang warfare that grip the slums of Rio de Janeiro, “City of God” delivers a bruising, visceral experience of the vicious spiral of violence that draws kids into a life of crime, brutality and murder as the only avenue open to them.
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