Month: August 2005

Gril­lions of peo­ple told me to watch this movie, Cidade de Deus, and while the plot did­n’t do much for me [Brazil­ian Boyz in the Hood], the tech­ni­cal skill of the film was def­i­nite­ly impres­sive in a few ways. Struc­tured in jour­nal­is­tic vignettes, the film tells us about Cidade de Deus [Rio’s Trench­town] by chart­ing the rise and fall of its var­i­ous inhab­i­tants.
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