City of God
After finally watching City of God (Cidade de Deus) last night I have one thing to say. We have no more use for Martin Scorsese. While he keeps making junk movies with that DiCaprio chick, two people I’ve never heard of made the coolest gangster flick to come out in the last 15 years. De Palma can also feel free to hang up his gloves.
City of God is real. It is gritty. It doesn’t have the suicidally annoying banter of Joe Pesci.
But the real kicker is what the Directors, Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, did for the locals. They were so into using the real kids who live in the frightening conditions in the film that they cast and trained the local rugrats. Then, when it dawned on them how great of an experience it was for the kids, they established an acting school for them that’s still going on.
Rent the movie. Now. And totally fuggetabout everything you were taught about gangster films.
January 24th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
one of my favorite movies.
Have you seen “Amores Perros”? It isn’t very similar to “City of God” (besides the gore), but I’ve found that people who can appreciate a complex, foreign-language film like “City of God” seem to like “Amores Perros.” It’s in Spanish, not Portuguese, but whatev.
January 24th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
yeah, I’m a big City of God fan…
*SPOILER* DONT READ IF U HAVENT SEEN MOVIE***
I was real proud of the photograhper for tapping the lady at the newspaper..that was the most gangsta part of it =) heh just playing… I loved the ending too…that main character is very inspirational I could relate to that cat in a lot of ways.
January 24th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
It’s probably one of my favourite films ever. Just great, great stuff.