City Of God

I finally saw this movie after hearing a lot of buzz about the film. I can see why it got a lot of attention, because it is a great film for many reasons. The characters develop perfectly as the story unfolds in a non traditional "tarantino" type order of events. The cinematography was so beautiful that I look forward to seeing the film again. On the other hand, the content is extremeley disturbing. Our main characters come from poverty, and live a life of violence, death, drugs and cruelty. One of the most disturbing aspects of this film is that children are becoming gangsters and "hoods" at a young age, hoping to follow the footsteps of the older gangsters. Although this content is so sad and disturbing, I respect the fact that non of it is glamorized.

City of God is one of the most controversial, inspiring and most gorgeous film adaptions in the movie cinema, and is a powerful story of crime and redemption. However, City of God contains very graphic and brutal domestic violence throughout, especially towards children and which some kids whom are resembled to be shooters themselves. Several acts of violence include shooting, sexual assault, torture, stabbing, beatings, and other aggravated acts of crime, mostly depicted from gangs (most involve teens and children). Language is strong and frequent, including explicit references to sex and vulgar dialogue said throughout  and there are several sex scenes which include people having intercourse in an hotel with orgies loudly present, and a disturbing implied rape scene where a man thrusts onto the camera. There's sequences of graphic drug use where children derived from gangs are seen smoking and doing illegal street drugs . City of God is one of the best, most brilliant films out here today, but be aware of the shockingly graphic violent content, pervasive and offensive language, strong sexual content including the infamous rape scene, and drug use in which children are also present doing. Adults only.