As with the majority of Latin American Cinema, with the exception of a few cases that are worthy of comment, it appears that it is only necessary that a film became a blockbuster so a lot of movie director made a lot of copies of it, which differ only in form but show the same coin. It is a film more, it is neither THE film nor the great story ever told.
From City of God it would appear that are only favelas in Brazil and we remain honest because of the latest exported films all developed there. Remember the Berlin festival (Maré or Elite squad) that best suit. The film, although it is based on a different story, falls into the same areas of violence, drug addiction, reflection on violence against children, and crossing the drama of a man who knows that he is going to die.
And it is that although Jose Wilker, or at least his character appears throughout the film, never achieves a connection with the audience, nor its drama is so shocking or her life so important. Thus we witness their problems that will be overcome gradually finding its origins and achieve close its door to the past, but just when the film begins to fall into deep in something interesting, there credits appears and we realize that we seen one and a half hours while it had died in the first five minutes would have said the same.
Thus the film can be summed up in anything, because he wants to talk about everything and never dares to delve into many interesting topics, such as the tortuous relationship of the father and son, mystical love of her mother, thinking about the inevitable fate, or continuous cycle at the end. Not. None of this matters while as kid that sells drugs died instead of a man who lives thinking about his closer death.
Simple and simply I prefer City of God.
From City of God it would appear that are only favelas in Brazil and we remain honest because of the latest exported films all developed there. Remember the Berlin festival (Maré or Elite squad) that best suit. The film, although it is based on a different story, falls into the same areas of violence, drug addiction, reflection on violence against children, and crossing the drama of a man who knows that he is going to die.
And it is that although Jose Wilker, or at least his character appears throughout the film, never achieves a connection with the audience, nor its drama is so shocking or her life so important. Thus we witness their problems that will be overcome gradually finding its origins and achieve close its door to the past, but just when the film begins to fall into deep in something interesting, there credits appears and we realize that we seen one and a half hours while it had died in the first five minutes would have said the same.
Thus the film can be summed up in anything, because he wants to talk about everything and never dares to delve into many interesting topics, such as the tortuous relationship of the father and son, mystical love of her mother, thinking about the inevitable fate, or continuous cycle at the end. Not. None of this matters while as kid that sells drugs died instead of a man who lives thinking about his closer death.
Simple and simply I prefer City of God.