City of God - Cidade de Deus - Movie Review
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
A very crude depiction of life realities for humans living below poverty line (and such people are billions in number). The movie is based on crime theme and almost all the time revolves around killings, drugs, verbal abuse, rape and other forms of violence.
The narration of the story and the sequencing of scenes (going back more and forth less) has been handled excellently well. Pace of story is fast enough to keep you from getting bored. Too many shocking scenes gives the feeling as if too many words have been made bold in a sentence. Nothing is shown out of context though and every thing relates well to the central story.
Must watch for crime movie lovers and a very good watch for general audience as long as on screen violence is not being considered a disturbing factor by the viewer.