City of God
If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.
★★★★★
Portuguese / 129 MIN. / 2002
The Genres
The Synopsis
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.