ipl-logo

City Of God Essay

1504 Words7 Pages

Turkey and Brazil are not always the first two countries you think of when you are choosing a movie, however, I chose these two countries to watch films about due to the abundance of Turkish students in my Fall 1 ELI experience and Brazil was chosen for the rich culture. Within the last two weeks of my second ELI experience, Caroleina has taught me a great deal about Brazil so I wanted to enhance my knowledge and identify how Brazilians represent their culture through their films. In order to find the perfect film to watch, I did some research in order to find the film the City of God directed by Fernando Meirelles. When I chose this film it was due to the good reviews and it was easily accessible on Netflix. In the film reviews, I noticed …show more content…

The Time period of the film is through the1960s and the 1980s, it starts off with the main character, Rocket, playing soccer with the other kids in the neighborhood. When Rocket begins to tell the story of his brother entering organized crime, he also explains how it gets passed off to the other children in the town. Sadly, each story ends with another member's death, even the positive characters that have a stronger morality. The first gang is the Trio and they rob but never kill anyone, however, at one heist due to the lookout getting ambitious, the Trio leaves and the lookout, Zé, kills everyone at the motel causing the members of the Trio to get arrested or killed by the police. The second gang leader is Zé and he goes on to control almost all of the drug distribution in the City of God. The third gang leader is Carrot and he controls the other half of the City of God. While Zé cleans up the streets and prevents crime from occurring in his half of the city, Carrot does not care what happens in his. These two leaders lead to war with each other, which causes complete destruction of the city and countless die due to this war. Since Rocket documents all of this and witnesses the final battle, it documents the corruption of the police and organized crime during this time in Brazil. This film displays the class struggle and the corruption within Brazil during this time

Show More
Related
573 Words | 3 Pages

The background on how the gang started and the what type of crime they are involved is similar to other criminal justice books. In this book the information goes into how the wars were started and the causes behind on why the gang did it. It also covers the gang clothing on what the gang wears similar to criminal justice books about the gang. The book details on how the gang started, membership process and criminal activity and how it ended in war about turf and drug trade. It covers how the club violent was fueled over drug money and the war between different chapters that broke the members up to create their own club the Rock

Read More
1985 Words | 8 Pages

Humans and need love and attachments like we need water and air. As we move throughout our lives from babies to adults attachments, have essential roles to play from making sure our biological needs are met by providing us with comfort, trust, and a sense of interconnectedness. Since attachments are such an integral and emotional part of our lives, it makes sense why we are separated from or lose people we are attached to it can be such an excruciating experience. For children losing attachment figures can be an especially scaring experience leaving wounds that may last into adulthood and well beyond. Such was the case for a woman named Francine Cournos, author of City of One: A Memoir.

Read More
635 Words | 3 Pages

When David was 10 years old, he moved to Chicago with his family. It was 1957, and within three years he became a gang leader. He was only 13 years old, but he was the leader of a small gang. There were plenty of small gangs with black people in them, but they were small and seemingly harmless. They were still committing crime and killing, but the effect they had on the community was negligible.

Read More
334 Words | 2 Pages

The legendary exploits of the gang is told as stories by the senior members of the gang. F. Young members are recruited through

Read More
3426 Words | 14 Pages

Crystal City Alien Enemy Detention Facility in World War II—Crystal City, Texas The shock generated by the unprovoked attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 resulted in many decisions by American government officials that would have enduring consequences. That act was, of course, the catalyst that forced the United States to enter World War II. However, another decision made shortly following that attack resulted in the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in Hawaii and the Western U.S.

Read More
719 Words | 3 Pages

The film Boyz N’ the hood follows the lives of a group of young African American men growing up in the hood where poverty, crime and violence are rampant. The three main characters are Darin (Dough boy), Ricky (Darin’s brother), and Tre. In this this film there are many schools of criminology’s that help explain the roots of the criminality portrayed.

Read More
707 Words | 3 Pages

Starting at creating and selling drugs to expanding to organized assassinations, the gang hit the radios almost daily. In a recent study by Compton Education, “the Five Point Gang started as dated back to the 1800’s” (8). Back then, people were beginning to become fascinated with gangs and the notorious gangsters. The Five Point Gang was very clever, controlled numerous brothels, gambled at the most luxurious places, and took over most of Brooklyn to earn all of their money.

Read More
1821 Words | 8 Pages

The objective of this gang was to steal as much as they could and as often as it was possible. The gang goes about the streets of Harlem terrorizing people with guns and fists, committing robberies as often as possible. This paper presents

Read More
1606 Words | 7 Pages

City of God is Brazil’s most critically praised film of recent years. Based on the book of the same name by writer Paulo Lins, which in-turn was based on a true story. This essay will focus on the cinematography and cinematic conventions of the film and how sound and music plays a big role in the opening sequence, it will also focus on visual design and lighting in the film Synopsis City of God is a violent, fast-paced movie that tells the tale of the residents of this Brazilian slum. Events are seen through the eyes of a poor black youth who is too scared to become an outlaw but too smart to get saddled with an underpaid, menial job. He grows up in an extremely violent environment and watches as many of his peers are easily sucked into a

Read More
1386 Words | 6 Pages

Racial disparity in Brazil is best explained in Abdias Nascimento article, Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Alternative. “I believe that the Black and mulatto the Brazilian of colour must have a racial counter-ideology and a counter position in socioeconomic terms. The Brazilian of colour must strive simultaneously for a double change: socioeconomic change in the country, and change in race and colour relations.” In 1968, through these words, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician Abdias Nascimento called attention to the potentially divergent but essentially related nature of the two main objectives of Afro-Brazilian activism: first, to effect concrete change in the distribution of social and economic power in Brazil, and second,

Read More
1041 Words | 5 Pages

As in Marx’s analysis of capitalist society, in the film we can clearly see how the bourgeois classes maintain their lifestyle by exploiting and mistreating the workers. The workers cannot be distinguished, they don't have an identity and a individuality, they are identified only by numbers. The capitalists live in luxurious spaces above ground, while the workers live beneath the surface of the ground, in miserable houses. Those factors point out the dissimilarities of the two classes, which bring us to the conclusion that there will always be an inevitable conflict between them.

Read More
2798 Words | 12 Pages

In order to keep up with the labor, plantation owners began importing slaves from Africa, which later led to a great mix in the country’s race and ethnicity. Once these sugar plantations began to harvest a successful profit, other European countries, like France and Spain, began to gain more and more interest in the land. This interest led to a great increase in wealth and immigration towards Brazil. These rival colonial

Read More
1824 Words | 8 Pages

Happening spontaneously, its execution took place indoors or outdoors, in gardens, bullfights, retreats, streets and alley, taverns, cafés de camareiras and casas de meia-porta. Evoking urban emergence themes, singing the daily narratives, Fado is profoundly related to social contexts ruled by marginality and transgression in a first phase, taking place in locations visited by prostitutes, faias, sailors, coachmen and marialvas. Often surprised in prison, its actors - the singers - are described in the faia figure, a fado singer guy, a bully of a rough and hoarse voice with tattoos and skilled with a flick knife who spoke using slang. As we will see, fado 's association to society 's most marginal spheres would definitely make the Portuguese intellectuals reject it

Read More
1081 Words | 5 Pages

This film not only gives us knowledge in cultures but provides us with relaxed moments. People should bear in mind that cultural difference is just the matter of variety, not the matter of which one is

Read More
1011 Words | 5 Pages

The large contrast between rich and poor is obvious and undeniable. I am unprepared for these overwhelming impressions. I realize that I was exclusively thinking of my Brazilian family background since I decided to come here and didn't even try to imagine how this journey will be like. When the bus leaves the city, I am glad to catch sight of woods and meadows instead of a concrete jungle. The rest of the drive is comparatively unexciting and I am even asleep for a

Read More

More about City Of God Essay

Related Topics

Open Document