Review: What are you doing, you're only a boy? Steal, kill, and carry a gun, how can I have a child? I man.Many visiting Brazil for the first time, Brazilians tend to be seen as a lack of serious ambition. There seems to be a party all night, and it seems that rarely works. The old joke about Brazilians is that they eat breakfast at 2:00 in the afternoon.But such a narrow view ignores the fact that while working in America to live, sweating away for money from the government against him in any way, such as in Brazil, Live, Live. This is a different kind of life, a life that sambas with the vibrance of swaying palm trees and a link drum. Life, who understand that we are only on this earth for a cup of cafezinho, and we need to have fun while we can, before it reaches the end, but quick.But like City of God, show us the Brazilian life is often nasty, brutish and short. A certain degree of anarchy overshadows all the inhabitants of the movie. Director Fernando Meirelles But the situation takes a lack of clear boundaries and a clear mandate, and creating a European framework structure of the Gang rules. The gang members are not seasoned, old time criminals as Fredo Corleone or even Tony Montana. Instead, a bunch of fresh face kids. No older than 25 years, in part because of choice, but mostly because no one lives past this age.On surface, in this regard, City of God is a coming of age of a story of two young people, a kind of Brazilian Angels With Dirty Faces. One character escapes from the City of God, while others succumb it.But when scratching below you will find the film a commentary on the moral bankruptcy of the City of God in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the mirror itself. Far from party hopping, Travel and Leisure postcard perfect white beaches, is another world, one of the merodeo bands of displaced children.The most surprising thing about the City of God is a reference to American films. Most of Brazilian films, such as films from all countries not owe allegiance to their particular cultural situation. Brazil due to the cultural debt of Europe (Portugal, Germany, Italy) and Africa. However, the United States is more distant cultural attitude to Brazil. This is where the City of God overcomes me an American film farmer. Used format section, known in Pulp Fiction, and most recently, Kill Bill. Used family structure, which is present in Goodfellas. Used white dress cool, present in Miami Vice and Bacardi and cola ad preview before this very movie.The fact that the City of God may be subtitled Grand Theft Auto: Sao Paolo, it was not a surprise nor a mistake. The film is constructed as a video game in its use of random acts of violence. However, liquid excellent camera work and editing of the film to bow to the enormous contradictions. Contradictions are large and as big as a noble country itself.Stylistically, camera work does not fit the premise as a gangster film. Gangster film has never been so attractive. It is as if the camera is released into the wide open beaches and tossed around as one of the Ronaldinhos head. It starts on the sand evenly on the move. It picks up the story, and then leads into the sun. Then we, the film leaves the viewer with the most indelible image in the years when we have seen, Sonia Braga (global icon and sex symbol of Brazil) with her niece, who is sitting on the sun-drunk coast put his arm around the other young a man. Innocence given in this scene is something to behold. Literally takes your breath away.You was slammed different, competing issues. You see the subtlety and quiet beach, crashed scenes battered young people who die on the streets. Understand wealth hypnotic ambiguous images pulled together, just as in the culture of Brazil itself. |
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