City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Keywords:
Street gang
Photographer
Gangster
Rio de janeiro
Gang war
Ghetto
Coming of age
Introspective
Critical
Tense
Conceited
Sincere
Based on real events
Movie tag line: "If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you."
