City Of God

I had heard about this movie in 03 when I started college. It's about the violence and crime in the slums of Rio de Janero and all the crazy shit that goes down. I had no idea but it takes place in the 60's/70's and follows a group of kids from their adolescence to their grown up shithead phase.

The movie is subtitled, which for me personally is fine but sometimes distracting. Sometimes I feel like I miss some visual aspects of the movie, but for this one I got the gist of it all. Some of the things that happened you could see coming, but in delivery were still cool. It's not just gangsta rappers glorifying thug life, it's all over the world. I wish these people wouldn't resort to crime and murder, or if that's the path they take, I wish they'd avoid the innocent people. But I digress.

I was watching up until one of the guys, Benny, decided he wants out and there's a big going away party for him. Violence strikes and it was obvious what was going to happen. From there all hell breaks loose so of course I'd be amped for this right?

Wrong. The movie is two hours and ten minutes long. There was still plenty of time left. Once they become adults it really starts to drag and I feel they couldve cut out some of the stuff. We understand that the bad guy is a very bad guy. When he was a kid we established how nasty he was. So in the midst of all the action it happened....

I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and turned it off, actually not caring to see the rest. I had my assumptions of what would happen. I looked up the spoiler online and in fact, my assumptions were correct. The only thing I didn't realize was it being based on a true story (according to the ending anyway) but Weekend at Bernies was also based on a true story along with Harry and the Hendersons.

Whatever. The whole start of the movie was great. I enjoyed seeing what these people became, they just spent too much time telling me. Check it out if you want, or go find spoilers