City of God (2002)

A powerful Brazilian drama directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund that's set in a poor, crime-ridden suburb of Rio de Janeiro. It’s told primarily as flashback, with style and substance on equal footing, illuminated with the kind of natural light that money can’t buy.
The city is a place wherein good friends and a gun can help you get by. A plan can get you further but could just as easily get you killed. Rocket has the latter, but even that isn't a guaranteed ticket out of the slum.
The V/O is from one character but it tells the story of many, each of the small cogs that help the larger cogs turn. The feeling that the City of God is as much a victim as the individuals that inhabit it is ever present.

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