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In Reply to: City of God posted by Victor Khomenko on May 22, 2005 at 17:06:32:
The Godfather, I Was A Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Once Upon a Time in America, Goodfellas, or any other crime epic.
The story is about two boyhood friends from one of the most dangerous slums in Rio: one finds a way out as a photographer and the other becomes a drug pin. This is, btw, based on a true story.
In the favelas of Rio, many kids begin using drugs, usually sniffing brain-cell destroying glue, around the age of 4. A more brutal, cut-throat environoment can't be found, yet it also a place where self-sacrifice, kindness, and love flowers: similar to a war zone, in other words.
The two main characters, and a host of supporting ones, are excellent. Many are non-actors portraying "themselves."
The style of the film, not unlike Pulp Fiction or Snatch, is comprised of complex directorial techniques but they brilliantly are incorparated and add to the excitement.
No, favelas are not a pretty world, but this film doesn't preach, excuse, or seek pity for the brutality it portrays.
You want a modern "noir" film? See this one...but prepare yourself to be moved.
Many, many film critics selected this as one of the best films of the year, with several major critics calling it a masterpiece.
It is.
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...excellent but not close to The Godfather. But then neither are the others you mentioned.
It is an American epic, and as such gets an easy pass, but overall it is just a very good film, not much more.Why did you have to mention the fact it was based on a true story? What on Earth does it have to do with artistic merits of the film?
As I said, my feeling was that I have already seen it all, so it really gave me nothing new. The film simply didn't touch me and it is not lingering in my memory. With many films you still feel absorbed several hours, days, after you had seen them... not with this one. But then I was never in love with Pulp Fiction either... just a few of its episodes.
Do you ever watch a movie to learn about another time? Another place? Another culture? The fact that the film is based upon true events adds poignancy to the story because it adds relevance to the story. Similar, though maybe not to the same degree, as watching a murder on television and watching one in real life. There is no art is murder, so why must there be on the screen? The film simply seeks to show you a life in another part of the world, one which you would not likely have known about otherwise. Why criticize a film for not being "artful" when that it is not necessarily the intent of the filmmakers?Usually, when a film contains many subjects, it looses it's way. I thought the filmmakers did a very good job of taking many characters, over a long period of time, and making them individuals, humans, where it would have been easy make them human targets, wherein we learn nothing about them, the violence being the subject. That the filmmakers were able to take a very violent subject and make the focus on the humans was commendable. And I think artful. Otherwise, I would echo the comments of Tinear. An excellent film.
And because you were not moved may say more about you than the film.
Yeah, and Shaq's the greatest basketball player ever!!;-)
"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
said that was your last Shaq comment?
Godfather is a very good movie but it suffers from glorifying the mafiosi.
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