Name: Ciudad de Dios
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Genre: Drama, Crimen
Released: 2002
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen

Question 1

How does the environment influence a person's decisions, but what role does personal freedom play in breaking negative cycles?

Accepted Answer

Extreme graphic violence in favelas; realistic rawness without ideological agenda. *City of God* offers a relentless portrait of organized crime in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, from the sixties to the eighties, centered on two children: Buscapé, a shy observer who aspires to be a photographer, and Dadinho, an ambitious boy who climbs towards criminal…

Question 2

What does this story teach us about the value of human dignity amidst misery and violence?

Accepted Answer

eiro, from the sixties to the eighties, centered on two children: Buscapé, a shy observer who aspires to be a photographer, and Dadinho, an ambitious boy who climbs towards criminal brutality. The film does not glorify violence, but exposes it in its rawness: mass shootings,…

Question 3

In what way can art, such as photography in the film, be a path to redemption and good?

Accepted Answer

who aspires to be a photographer, and Dadinho, an ambitious boy who climbs towards criminal brutality. The film does not glorify violence, but exposes it in its rawness: mass shootings, summary executions, armed children, and a cycle of revenge that devours generations. This…