City of God (2002) Movie Review & Suggestion

City of God

Mobs and gangster-centric films have always been a delight for me. Considering that, took me long enough to see one of the OG ones of Gangster-centric films of all, City of God.

It's about a village called the City of God where God doesn't exist, he's been created. The city was created for the refugees and victims of the flood. In the City of God, kids become men and then monsters. Some try to crawl out of the gutter and be pulled by destiny.

It's a textbook film for those who want to make a movie about Gangsters. But then one might ask that, there's The Godfather Trilogy and Scorsese movies, so what's different in it? Everything is different actually, the tone is way more brutal and realistic. It's not based on organized crime, rather I'd say this film focuses on organized chaos. Revolving around a kid who wants to become a cameraman and a journalist in the City of God and is seeing the rise of all the gods and monsters and their fall, especially an ambitious kid name Li'l Dice who becomes the God of City, kills a lot of people, does a lot of things to eventually lose everything he has. Although it's a story of a bunch of criminals but what caught my eye, was the subtle plot where the story says to you that in the City of God, those who stay good are the ones who are destined to be good. Otherwise, you get overrunned or misguided or just change the colour of your skin, eventually.

The technical aspects of this film are very good and grounded, nothing extraordinary yet well made.

I'd give this film a 4.5/5

~ Subhodeep Chakraborty

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