Saturday, January 31, 2009

City of God (a movie review)

Directors:Fernando Meirelles
Kátia Lund (co-director)

Cast:
Alexandre Rodrigues ... Rocket
Leandro Firmino ... Li'l Zé
Phellipe Haagensen ... Benny
Douglas Silva ... Li'l Dice
Jonathan Haagensen ... Shaggy
Matheus Nachtergaele ... Carrot
Seu Jorge ... Knockout Ned

The Plot: Gangsters killing one another. But this is a no non-sense film, it is even touching at some point.

Set in the 60’s in a ghetto of Rio de Janeiro, the film brings you to the lives of those people living in the slum, to their violent world: young armed thuds smashing other people’s properties to steal and their younger siblings watching them like heroes as they do it.

Then these younger fellows grow up to be just like their older brothers, who at this time, are already long dead.

Click here for the full review of this movie.

Special thanks: wengkat for the Ube Espesyal ice cream i had while writing the review. good luck sa diet. >.<


next movie review: Love in the Time of Cholera.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

dear, pahulama ko og tape anang gipang-review nimu beh. kay wa najud koy tan-aw2x og movie (sa theater) since diona's birth, so i'll be contented nga balay lang magtan-aw to save money. hehehe. =)

vatski said...

ako na ng giuli, dear. try ko huwam balik, naa pa man ngali na ni jentot. napa sad koy daghan sa bay. ig human, pauslon tka. oki? =)