The brilliance of City of God is not just in the ability of the director to tell you the story about a young man growing up in a ghetto. It's the fact that the main character of the story is the city itself with all the crime, death, hope, despair, economic inequality and brutal reality that comes with it.  City of God shows you just how full life is.

From scenes of brutality amongst youth, revenge as a reason to live, corruption of values, war, violence against women, evil, heroic myth, loss of innocence etc.  one gets the immpression that from the outset, that the intense emotion caused is waranted.  Not because the director has made a good film that we should all watch because of its realness.  More because it is real.
This stuff actually happens.
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