Fun fact: The guy who played Carrot (Matheus Nachtergaele) was the only professional actor in this movie. All the other people in this movie were just normal people who were hired and trained on how to act in the movie. And then there's Knockout Ned, who's played by Seu Jorge, a really good and famous singer here in Brazil. Although, the movie would actually turn some of the people into actual professional actors, like the ones who played Angelica, Lil' Zé and Steak-n'-Fries
@@gyllsilva9534 Mas eu disse isso no meu comentário. Ele era o único ator profissional do filme naquela época. Aí depois a Angélica, Zé Pequeno e o Filé-com-Fritas viraram atores profissionais
If the original language of the world was Portuguese, this would probably be the best film in history. No exaggerations. You lose 30% of the movieexperience watching it in English.
@@arthurribeiro7709 Sim, mas o que representado no filme não acontece na vida real de fato. Como eu disse no meu comentário, é uma dramatização. O filme é baseado em fatos reais, não uma reprodução do que acontecia na época.
@@isabellamoretti8980 na verdade, na vida real é bem pior que no filme, já trabalhei em comunidade que ver uma criança morta no chão era comun, geralmente não tinha mãe nem pai, ninguém conhecia e ninguém queria conhecer, romantizar o que acontece de verdade é um dos maiores erros que a de se fazer no cinema, essa é a verdade, nua e crua, mas acontece, diariamente, em todo o Brasil. fechar os olhos e dizer que é impossível alguém fazer isso com outra pessoa é dizer que estamos vivendo em um Brasil perfeito. E todos nós sabemos que isso é erroneamente irreal.
People in the US and Canada have it easy. I am originally from Haiti and I can tell you those types of movies are what's happening in lots of countries. The way to see it is that people living there have no way out. Destroying is a way of life.
A curiosity: when this film was nominated for an Oscar, the voters left the theater because they considered the film to be extremelly appealing/unreal.
In my opinion Lil Z killing as a kid was one of the most disturbing scenes I'd ever seen in film. The fact that he has this playful smile while he does this shit is just insanely unsettling.
If that's the most disturbing thing you've seen in movies, then you must a be child who was just allowed to watch his first movie
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Oque eu vejo no cinema brasileiro, é que o estilo de direção da maioria dos filmes tem uma pegada mais realista, cinza, meio urbano. Nos estados unidos, os filmes de ação geralmente são focados em gerar emoções mais positivas como empolgação, adimiração e diversão. Já no brasil, é mais focado em contar a história com o mais puro realismo possível. - pelo menos é a minha observação.
Nunca consegui expressar o que eu sinto vendo filmes brasileiros tão bem quanto você descreveu agora, sinto que no cinema BR falta "magia", filmes mais fantasiosos, eu pelo menos, tô cansada da "realidade" gostaria de assistir algo mais lúdico, porém, não infantil.
@@pornesianparrapionowattpad2210 Eu creio que no Brasil filmes que inventaram histórias como você falou não deram muito certo A GAROTA DA MOTO 2021 nem teve muito público eu acho que esses tipos de histórias devem ficar a cargo de Hollywood pois se nem os brasileiros veem seus filmes fictícios ( que filmes desse estilo já são considerados caros nos EUA imagine no Brasil. )qual é a graça de fazê-los e gastar uma enorme grana se ninguém vai vê-los? porém quando se tratam dos nossos filmes mais vistos como Tropa de Elite 1 e 2 além de Cidade de Deus é o que o povo prefere mais, uma história não completamente fictícia como no Tropa 1 e 2 mas com um toque "brasileiro" e no Cidade de Deus mais focada na realidade com um toque dos "maneirismo". Mas Essa é só minha opinião.
@@pornesianparrapionowattpad2210 Eu acho que é apenas o estilo brasileiro é como um estilo próprio pois da mesma forma que é um pouco difícil assistir um filme americano 100% realista sem acrescentar alguma coisa, também é difícil ver um filme brasileiro 100% fictício sem acrescentar alguma realidade, mas é claro essa é só minha opinião.
The Best. I was introduced to this over a dozen years ago, when my best friend, my literal partner in somewhat organized crime, told me he'd stumbled upon the greatest gangster movie ever. I laughed. Then i sat down and watched it. Needless to say it sparked my brain to a level of brutality I wasn't completely comfortable with, and I initiated changes, and eventually bowed out. So I guess you could say this movie not only changed my mentality, but also my life. As silly as that sounds now.
@@rukus9585 If the original language of the world was Portuguese, this would probably be the best film in history. No exaggerations. You lose 30% of the movieexperience watching it in English.
What is it with ppl smoking to this movie lmao. I remember being high watching it for the first time too and I see a bunch of comments of ppl saying the same. Didn’t know other ppl experienced it too lol
25:34 when the kids talk about "Red Brigade" you need to understand the context: in Brazil the major criminal organization is called "Red Command". They are the worst thing you can imagine in terms of cruelty and violence. The timeline of City of God is 60 and 70's to the 80. The Red Brigade was born in that period and after that decade them they organized and became The Red Command, the principal criminal organization from Brazil. In 2000 to then they finally had a rival: PCC - The First Capital Command. Actually they kill each other around the country and put terror on the population.
One of the most interesting facts about this criminal scenario is that it was created by prisoners who were fighting against torture in prison. During that time, Rio was totally under the control of the Milicia (criminal organization from police). Politician and police used terms like "Favela Owner" to define the crime, and by that point, it was becoming organized. The Milicia was the one who sold heavy guns to criminals, putting them in their hands. In other words, there is much more to Rio's violence than most people realize.
Em 2004 O filme _"Cidade de Deus"_ foi indicado a *QUATRO* Oscars: - Melhor diretor; - Melhor roteiro adaptado; - Melhor edição; e - Melhor fotografia;
E sabemos que o filme foi "roubado" e sabotado, Oscar é feito para filmes americanos e vez ou outra premiavam um filme de fora pra fingir ser imparcial.
Fun fact: in the ending of the film, the runts mention about a “red brigade”, which in real life are the comando vermelho (red command) which was a crime organization that was made up of convicts and militants whom would became one of the most prominent gangs in Brazil in the 1980s thru the present day
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person Cidade dos Homens is a TV show, and it takes place many years after this movie, so they can't be talking about him. Also, the kid playing Lil Dice is one of the main characters of the show.
Do you want to know the worst? This movie is years old, but that STILL happens here in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, every day we have little kids dying because of drugs and crime. Sometimes they're not even involved. People from outside of Brazil think this is shocking, but for us, that's "normal" and we don't get surprised anymore. It's so freaking sad...
"but for us, that's normal" speak for yourself, I don't see such things happening here in João Pessoa And i don't even know why i am typing in english 🤷♂️
this is brazil's best movie. The book is way way heavier. Thanks for react to this movie, man. We here in Brazil love when guys from other countries react to our stuff. Please react to more brazilian movies
About the "voodoo" scene. Lil Zé was talking to a entity called Exu, a guardian spirit workshiped on African-Brazilian religions, such as Candomble and Umbanda. The man was a babalorixa, a Candomble priest, he was incorporated with the entity Exu, that gave his protection necklace to him, turning him from Lil Dice to Lil Zé.
The shocking part is that most of the kids had never NEVER acted in anything before. There is a documentary about the movie twenty years later or something. A girl talks about getting paid $200 bucks to be in the movie and spent it all on bracelets and jewelry. Amazing movie in my top ten since I first saw it.
The only actual actor in that movie at the time was Matheus Nachtergaele (the actor who played Carrot). All the other people in there were simply instructed on what to do. But some of the people became actual actors after this movie (like Lil Zé, Angélica and Steak-n-Fries)
Hi, I would like to explain some things about the movie and the actors: 1. The actor who played the "Lil Dice" aka "Lil Zé" as a child is not the same as the one who interpreted when he was already adult. 2. The producers of this movie wanted to show an exact image about what the life of the crime is like in the favelas. And it was so difficult to find trained actors for this kind of performance, they went to the Favelas and picked their own residents to interpret all these characters. For this, they taught the basics about acting and then finally got a good cast. 3. The film tells the story of a boy who saw the world crime grow inside the Favela (this explains the first scene where they ask him to get the chicken, and he looks forward and back, where one side had police and the other had criminals). 4. The little boy who took a shot at the foot had a genuine reaction. He said that the producers did not let the adult actors talk to the childrens. And they put him in a room and made him have the first contact with the Lil Zé interpret (it was scary and made him get afraid when they started to record the scene, resulting in expressions of fear and crying). 5. Don't be shocked by the violence they show in this movie, the intention was to show exactly how things works in the Favelas. Great reaction!! 🇧🇷🤍
this movie is the biggest injustice of the oscars. They changed the rating rules after him, as the old men at the Oscars said it was barbaric and not a movie and gave it terrible marks. he should have won the oscar no doubtb
Brazilian cinema is a masterpiece, extremely underrated, Brazilians have 40 years extreme experience building novels,their 80s and 90s novels are also masterpieces, yet because of the language barrier they are mostly only consumed by Portuguese speaking people... yet the acting you see here is just typical Brazilian pattern... the acting level is really high there.
No estoy tan acuerdo contigo. Si bien está película es un ejemplo de cine mundial. Creo que son contadas las películas (brasileñas) con tal nivel. Tal vez tropa de élite. Pero no es como si todas su pelis fueran un éxito
City of God and Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) makes for an intense double feature: both great Brazilian films, both based on true stories, both set in the favela underworld. One told from the point of view of the gangs, the other told from the point of view of the police special forces who have to deal with them. Recommend you checking out Elite Squad at some point.
First time I watched this film as a kid it really scarred me, growing up in a favela and seeing a film about people who looked like me, spoke like me, lived more or less in a similar situation, getting killed and doing horrible things was terrifying. Specially Shaggy, since he kinda looked like my older brother, that scene where he gets gunned down by cops was particularly impactful to me. In the end none of us ever got involved in anything crime related, unfortunately a bunch of childhood friends did tho.
First saw this around 2008-9; it shot right to the top of my best-of-the-decade list, and has remained there ever since. Am always happy to see someone discover it.
I saw this movie the day it came out in NYC 2002, 3 days before I went to Copacabana for the first time! Me and my friend was like "Where the f#ck are we going? What are we getting into?!" 😍 We had the time over our lives ❤ Been to Rio 6 times total.😎
thats actually a good comment to show how fucked up things are here in brazil, even if some favelas are really close to the noble areas, people that live at the noble areas dont see or experiece 1% off what happens in the favelas, maybe u get robbed. politicians only care about hiding it from the rich and the tourists, i know thats something common i believe in the entire wolrd but here in brazil shit is reeeeally messy. makes me happy to see people from others countries, especially rich countries, watching those films that can really show what most of the population here go throught in a daily basis.
14:30 One of the realest reactions I've ever seen. Respect to you for appreciating the tragedy of the scene and not being afraid to show genuine emotion.
14:00 usually the parents were working desperately ro feed the family. I actually work next to City of God. It’s modern, but the same violence happens these days. A few years back, a police incursion during the night resulted in dozens of dead minors
Hey, Mell. Great reaction, dude. I hope you are recovered from this already. When this movie was released, it was one of the favorites to win an Oscar for foreigner movie, but the academy rejected it for being "too violent" and "too fictional", "no country could be that violent". Well, they were wrong. That's a little slice of Brazil's reality.
I really liked these reaction. If you are interested in other Brazilian movies, I have some recommendations: Bacurau (2019) Besouro | The Assailant (2009) Quando Eu Era Vivo | Wen I Was Alive (2014) O Auto da Compadecida | A Dog's Will (2000) Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho | The Way He Looks (2014)
Knockout Ned (or Rooster Ned) is Seu Jorge, a famous singer from Brazil. He's in Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He sings a ton of Bowie songs in Portugeuse. Even Bowie was impressed!
As a brazilian, we in the 30s watched this movie as kids! This is a really good movie because it shows the shocking reality the goes on here! Of course that's not the representation of the entire country, but we are pretty aware that everything there are 100% accurate, and to be honest, maybe reality can be even worse!
*O que notei nos filmes brasileiros (nacionais) é que eles sempre têm aquele realismo que torna o filme mágico. Seja "Tropa de Elite" ou "Cidade de Deus". São filmes onde o roteiro e os personagens podem existir ou ter existido. Não são filmes de ação onde parece algo exagerado, são filmes onde mostra pura violência na sociedade, e até assusta.*
É porque Brasileiro ainda não consegue fazer um CGI sinistro. Senão daqui a pouco até CurupiraVerso vai ter. Sem contar o velozes e furiosos desafio no Catonho.
One review compared this movie to Goodfellas, so I went to see it back in 2002 when it was still in theaters. I still think it's one of the most amazing films I've ever seen. Interesting to note that the only actor who had credits to his name was the guy who played Carrot. Everyone else was an amateur (except Alice Braga). There was a documentary that came out in 2013 (City of God - 10 Years Later) that caught up with the actors. Interesting to note that the people who actually lived in Cidade de Deus didn't exactly like the original film and didn't want to relive the experience that many felt glorified the violence many of them survived.
Eu como brasileiro vejo mais esse filme como uma historia de horror-social mesmo, de lembrar que ao nosso redor existem realidades tao cheias de dor, desprezo e descaso completo com a vida
I remeber seeing the trailer in the theater , i was like WTF is this , i gotta see it when it comes out. It blew me away watching it for the first time. There is also a mini-series wich they finish with a movie called "City of Men" alot of the actors from City of God are in it .
@@Bruh_Alvesz Normal chorar cara, mano n tem como vc ver aquelas cenas das crianças tomando tiro e sendo mortas sem chorar krl, só se vc for outro psicopata insensível igual ao zé pequeno pra n chorar vendo isso.
I would suggest another movie called "The Killing Fields", inspired by the story of a man escaping from Cambodia under Pol Pot in the 70s. He tragically died during a random mugging in the 1996
The most interesting thing about this movie is that at the time it was made, all the actors were amateurs. Recruited from underserved communities, most had never worked as actors in their lives. It is possible to see "Seu Jorge" almost anonymous at the beginning of her career, Alice Braga still a teenager.
Brazilian Portuguese is so heavy.. You can say f🦆ck like drinking water. But when you say porra it has that angry flavour 😂 you can feel it in your soul 😅
This movie is a masterpiece. You nailed on your comments throghout the movie about the cinematography and the concept of ciclical violence. Of course there is a lot of dramatization in it, but is not uncommun to see daily on the news similar situations portraited in the movie here in Brasil, unfortunately.
Great reaction vid, and great movie. Extremely hard to watch, had me in tears knowing that life can be this hard for many in the world. As you said you see the cycle continues, people tossed aside and labeled as scum and used as fodder. The corruption starts high up, and unfortunately is the only thing that trickles down, and the majority of us just sit en mass, powerless and too afraid to fix. It’s a masterful film...and it highlights the fact that no matter where in the world you live, no matter your background, one can create something that can leave us in awe and remind us how similar we are.
@@luisdascondongas6199 oh completely. In the US we have areas that are as bad as any area in the world. And we also have massive amounts of corruption and countless other issues. The US is trending downward, and most other nations are trending upwards. This is still an amazing movie, and an example of what other cultures can bring to cinema. Hollywood is not the end all be all, thank god.
@@BHSRugby1999 thx for sharing your Acknowledge about this and I'm glad you enjoyed this movie we have many others if wanna check another movie but from the police side there is a movie called elite squad/tropa de elite is also a good movie.
Hey Mell, I have been binge watching your reactions for the past week. I started with the disney content because is always nice to witness someone sseing disney for the first time and then I ended up watching all the rest of your videos. I'm Brazilian, it's nice to see my country culture represented in this beautiful production. We are very proud of City of God in here! Good job on your reactions! It has been fun to work listening to you react to my favorite films for the first time! I love how emotional you get in the movies, I'm like that too and feels like I'm rewatching some of my favorite movies with a friend. :)
City of God is such a GOOD movie....ive never watched an English dubbed version....but I remeber it in english....so.much so...that I swear I can watch a nin sub titled version and hear the translation in my head
@@Samson16436 o auto da compadecida (a dog's will) and central do brasil (central station) are both really good I don't know if you would like a dog's will as much as brazilians do cause there's a lot of cultural references and brazilian inside jokes but it's worth it to give it a try
This is my favorite movie of all time, saw it on HBO almost 10 years ago, I recorded it and watched it probably a thousand times at this point. I think I'm actually learning to understand some of what their saying without having to read the subtitles. It started to become a movie a I slept too for awhile as well
One thing that most people missed was that at the very end, the kid says “did you guys hear about this Red Brigade?” referring to Comando Vermelho (red command), which is the cartel that runs most of the favelas in Rio and is also one of the biggest cartels in the World.
I remember watching this in 2005 during my Brazil phase....I watched it several times along with City of Men (series & movie) as well as the City of God 10 years later documentary.
This movie shows a lot of the problems here in Brazil, some representations are quite faithful, others are exaggerated, others just illustrated. But it depends a lot on the region and cities where you are (in the case of the movie, the region is Rio de Janeiro). Brazil is so BIG! There are regions so different that sometimes you have the feeling that you are not in the same country.
I saw Hardball as a kid too. I grew up playing baseball all the time so it was one of the films we all loved and it always made us cry. The kid that got killed wasn't the one u were thinking of. Jamal was the one who ended up in the gang life after he was kicked out of the league for being too old. The kid that died was G-Baby, he and his brother Kofi were going home when they both got caught in between a gang crossfire. Kofi lived but G-Baby died.
I know its been a time, but if you ever see this, I'm gonna state some facts about City of God One of the most impressive things about this movie is that the cast isn't of "well trained" actors, most of these kids were all citizen of the Favelas, part of a project to get of the streets. This is one of the reasons why all this looked so real and natural, because in a way, it was. For most of them (if not all) this work was their first enything in front of a camera. Unfortunatelly, for not knowing anything about the industry (and not knowing the huge success it would be), their contracts was a small amount of money. Most of them have great careers here, but some (like Lil Dice/Zé) not so much. Also, Zé is a nickname and stands por José, which is Joseph, so Zé pequeno (small, or little, yes)) would be Lil Joe. But I would translate it as Small Joe, it'd be more fitting in this context. Anyways. I loved your reaction and analysis. Take care
@@JoaoLucasK My God I never realized Dadinho came from Eduardo (now I know *Dado* Dolabella means Eduardo damn hahahaha). But Eddie is already an equivalant to Dudu. Maybe then Dadinho should be translated to Teddie or Neddie, would be more accurate
Your reaction touched me, so authentic and deep soul, thank you. 16:20 The word missed in Portuguese is the same as burned. So, when he burn a cigarette (!) with the girl phone number It is a poetic (and melancholic) scene.
Oh gosh, totally worth the "like". Great reaction there brother. Even though i'm brazilian, i've never seen this movie. I wasn't prepared for that shot scene with the kids. I kinda of got emotional wacthing that scene alongside with u.
The story of "Cidade de Deus", which is actually a neighborhood, took place due to an attempt by the city of Rio de Janeiro to clean the city (a hygienist attempt), from the poor and blacks, removing them from the most valued from Rio de Janeiro and taking them to a distant region. The "City of God" was a neighborhood where the poor were thrown, a distant place, without infrastructure, without work, without leisure, with nothing and, as it could not be otherwise, due to all this abandonment, it became a crime scene! There was no work for everyone, there was no education, nothing. The parents, most of them poor and black, had many children and had to go out to work and the children were left there, lost and without assistance, crime co-opted them, obviously! Today crime in Rio de Janeiro is quite different. Practically those who command the crime are the militias (criminal police), who dominate the traffic, drugs, pay-TV (fraudulent), the supply of gas, electricity, commerce, everything! Everything nowadays is commanded by these militias, as I said, most of them police officers or ex-policemen! Crime has changed a lot! There is a strong connection between our current President of the Republic and the militias and organized crime! There was a "crime office" in the luxury condominium where the president lived, where the assassination of an important emerging black leader, Marielle Franco, was planned and executed! The right-hand man of the President's son, Queiroz, organized a scheme to steal the salary of employees of the municipality, Queiroz is a former policeman, with several crimes in his name (Bolsonaro's friend and his son, Flavio Bolsonaro)!
While I agree that the kid Steak and Fries wasn't a man, collecting bodies ages you exponentially. This is my favorite foreign movie, top 3 movie overall, and the most underrated movie ever.
You don’t even have to be a native Portuguese speaker or even understand Portuguese (obviously English subtitles) for that matter to enjoy City of God: one of the best movies ever made. Such an amazing story with strong characters
I saw it twice in Madison WI when it was first released and people couldn't handle a certain part of the movie and both times groups of people left early.
One of my all time favorites. Definitely would be in the Top Ten Crime films. I love the way it moves. It's operatic. The imagery. The delivery. The tragedy. The community. To think they were given the option of 2G or a cut of the profits and most of them took the cash option. They didn't think it was going to be big. Plus they hadn't seen that kind of money before. Good 10 year later follow up doc. Lil Zé is iconic. Benny is super cool. The Tender Trio set it off. Rocket is such a great juxtaposition.
Great movie, great reaction! Not to review but Pixote is another true story movie about childrens lives in the favelas. How about a review of Run Lola Run?
If you get a chance you should watch City Of Men. Also from the same production team, with a lot off the same actors, but very lighthearted about 2 young Black kids growing up in the Hood of City Of God.
The "Red Brigade" (Falange Vermelha) the kids are talking about in the very end was the criminal organization that took over the drug trafficking at Rio. They soon became Comando Vermelho, a dissidence that took over the traffic not only in Rio but also another states until the 2000s, when militias entered the dispute.
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@@HelloMellowXVI I figured.
i hace a dejavu xD
Fun fact: The guy who played Carrot (Matheus Nachtergaele) was the only professional actor in this movie. All the other people in this movie were just normal people who were hired and trained on how to act in the movie. And then there's Knockout Ned, who's played by Seu Jorge, a really good and famous singer here in Brazil. Although, the movie would actually turn some of the people into actual professional actors, like the ones who played Angelica, Lil' Zé and Steak-n'-Fries
I knew Seu Jorge from the Life Aquatic, his soundtrack of Bowie covers is on heavy rotation for me
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He's an amazing singer
Matheus mastergale também já era profissional
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Mas eu disse isso no meu comentário. Ele era o único ator profissional do filme naquela época. Aí depois a Angélica, Zé Pequeno e o Filé-com-Fritas viraram atores profissionais
@@JoaoLucasK O ator do Dadinho também
If the original language of the world was Portuguese, this would probably be the best film in history. No exaggerations. You lose 30% of the movieexperience watching it in English.
I agree you
Esse é um dos melhores filmes talvez até o melhor filme produzido pelo brasil
@@elplayhard4475 tropa de elite >
Como traduz pra inglês "samango". A linguagem desse filme é inigualável
🇧🇷 I agree
Its not drama, its complete reality.
It's based on a true story, but not completely accurate. Like all films, it's a dramatisation.
@@isabellamoretti8980 acho q ela quis dizer q msm tendo dramatização q tem em todo filme, tudo representado no filme acontece na vida real de fato
@@arthurribeiro7709 Sim, mas o que representado no filme não acontece na vida real de fato. Como eu disse no meu comentário, é uma dramatização. O filme é baseado em fatos reais, não uma reprodução do que acontecia na época.
Isso mesmo. É um filme muito realista, isso o faz ser bastante pesado.
@@isabellamoretti8980 na verdade, na vida real é bem pior que no filme, já trabalhei em comunidade que ver uma criança morta no chão era comun, geralmente não tinha mãe nem pai, ninguém conhecia e ninguém queria conhecer, romantizar o que acontece de verdade é um dos maiores erros que a de se fazer no cinema, essa é a verdade, nua e crua, mas acontece, diariamente, em todo o Brasil. fechar os olhos e dizer que é impossível alguém fazer isso com outra pessoa é dizer que estamos vivendo em um Brasil perfeito. E todos nós sabemos que isso é erroneamente irreal.
People in the US and Canada have it easy. I am originally from Haiti and I can tell you those types of movies are what's happening in lots of countries. The way to see it is that people living there have no way out. Destroying is a way of life.
A curiosity: when this film was nominated for an Oscar, the voters left the theater because they considered the film to be extremelly appealing/unreal.
Then be active in fixing your shit hole country instead of whining about it
@@samwinters3121 wtf was the point of that you're being a dickhead for no reason
@@samwinters3121 uncalled for but what are you doing?
@@kofig8357 I don't know I was drunk and jokingly quoting Trump. My bad
In my opinion Lil Z killing as a kid was one of the most disturbing scenes I'd ever seen in film. The fact that he has this playful smile while he does this shit is just insanely unsettling.
the children of brazil are placed very early in criminality end up becoming psychopaths at a young age
Not so many like this character, but there are some like him in the favelas in Brazil. Consumed by being a big shot killer
Truly resembled a true sociopath. To each fine minute detail
Dis you realized?
Him as kid killing adults.
Him as adult killing kids.
Dude was pure evil.
If that's the most disturbing thing you've seen in movies, then you must a be child who was just allowed to watch his first movie
Oque eu vejo no cinema brasileiro, é que o estilo de direção da maioria dos filmes tem uma pegada mais realista, cinza, meio urbano. Nos estados unidos, os filmes de ação geralmente são focados em gerar emoções mais positivas como empolgação, adimiração e diversão. Já no brasil, é mais focado em contar a história com o mais puro realismo possível.
- pelo menos é a minha observação.
Nunca consegui expressar o que eu sinto vendo filmes brasileiros tão bem quanto você descreveu agora, sinto que no cinema BR falta "magia", filmes mais fantasiosos, eu pelo menos, tô cansada da "realidade" gostaria de assistir algo mais lúdico, porém, não infantil.
@@pornesianparrapionowattpad2210 Eu creio que no Brasil filmes que inventaram histórias como você falou não deram muito certo A GAROTA DA MOTO 2021 nem teve muito público eu acho que esses tipos de histórias devem ficar a cargo de Hollywood pois se nem os brasileiros veem seus filmes fictícios ( que filmes desse estilo já são considerados caros nos EUA imagine no Brasil. )qual é a graça de fazê-los e gastar uma enorme grana se ninguém vai vê-los? porém quando se tratam dos nossos filmes mais vistos como Tropa de Elite 1 e 2 além de Cidade de Deus é o que o povo prefere mais, uma história não completamente fictícia como no Tropa 1 e 2 mas com um toque "brasileiro" e no Cidade de Deus mais focada na realidade com um toque dos "maneirismo". Mas Essa é só minha opinião.
@@pornesianparrapionowattpad2210 Eu acho que é apenas o estilo brasileiro é como um estilo próprio pois da mesma forma que é um pouco difícil assistir um filme americano 100% realista sem acrescentar alguma coisa, também é difícil ver um filme brasileiro 100% fictício sem acrescentar alguma realidade, mas é claro essa é só minha opinião.
Concordo. O cinema italiano também tem essa pegada.
Isso mesmo não estamos sozinhos nesse estilo.
I remember watching this movie stoned. It had me thinking about it for a whole week. One of the best gangsta movie I've ever seen
The Best. I was introduced to this over a dozen years ago, when my best friend, my literal partner in somewhat organized crime, told me he'd stumbled upon the greatest gangster movie ever. I laughed. Then i sat down and watched it. Needless to say it sparked my brain to a level of brutality I wasn't completely comfortable with, and I initiated changes, and eventually bowed out. So I guess you could say this movie not only changed my mentality, but also my life. As silly as that sounds now.
@@rukus9585 If the original language of the world was Portuguese, this would probably be the best film in history. No exaggerations. You lose 30% of the movieexperience watching it in English.
@@onikeage I cannot disagree with that. It makes sense.
@@onikeage unfortunately, "Lost in Translation" can be very real, even more so culturally than just language.
What is it with ppl smoking to this movie lmao. I remember being high watching it for the first time too and I see a bunch of comments of ppl saying the same. Didn’t know other ppl experienced it too lol
25:34 when the kids talk about "Red Brigade" you need to understand the context: in Brazil the major criminal organization is called "Red Command". They are the worst thing you can imagine in terms of cruelty and violence. The timeline of City of God is 60 and 70's to the 80. The Red Brigade was born in that period and after that decade them they organized and became The Red Command, the principal criminal organization from Brazil. In 2000 to then they finally had a rival: PCC - The First Capital Command. Actually they kill each other around the country and put terror on the population.
One of the most interesting facts about this criminal scenario is that it was created by prisoners who were fighting against torture in prison. During that time, Rio was totally under the control of the Milicia (criminal organization from police). Politician and police used terms like "Favela Owner" to define the crime, and by that point, it was becoming organized. The Milicia was the one who sold heavy guns to criminals, putting them in their hands. In other words, there is much more to Rio's violence than most people realize.
Falange vermelha=comando vermelho.
@@ggbalbs to that extent? dude, and i thought the maras in El Salvador were a problem.
Em 2004 O filme _"Cidade de Deus"_ foi indicado a *QUATRO* Oscars:
- Melhor diretor;
- Melhor roteiro adaptado;
- Melhor edição; e
- Melhor fotografia;
E sabemos que o filme foi "roubado" e sabotado, Oscar é feito para filmes americanos e vez ou outra premiavam um filme de fora pra fingir ser imparcial.
@@tai52002 real
@@tai52002 era oscar de melhor filme no mínimo.
Lógico, o fotógrafo era o Buscapé, óbvio que seria nomeado como melhor fotografia
melhor sequência de assassinatos também.
Fun fact: in the ending of the film, the runts mention about a “red brigade”, which in real life are the comando vermelho (red command) which was a crime organization that was made up of convicts and militants whom would became one of the most prominent gangs in Brazil in the 1980s thru the present day
They met commies on a jail who were arrested during that time and they created this kind of militia
They also mentioned Madrugadão, the drug trafficker in the movie Cidade dos Homens.
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person Cidade dos Homens is a TV show, and it takes place many years after this movie, so they can't be talking about him.
Also, the kid playing Lil Dice is one of the main characters of the show.
Do you want to know the worst? This movie is years old, but that STILL happens here in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, every day we have little kids dying because of drugs and crime. Sometimes they're not even involved.
People from outside of Brazil think this is shocking, but for us, that's "normal" and we don't get surprised anymore. It's so freaking sad...
"but for us, that's normal" speak for yourself, I don't see such things happening here in João Pessoa
And i don't even know why i am typing in english 🤷♂️
@@pedrosabino8751 he said it happens in rio de janeiro not in your city
@@jacobanderson6767 He said "people from outside of *Brazil* ... but for *us* , that's normal"
@@jacobanderson6767 He is assuming such things are common in *Brazil*
Fora do RJ também e na moral ...tem muita história pior não contada que a censura nunca permitiria
Whenever anyone asks me what's your absolute favourite movie?, my reply is always 'City of God'. What an incredible film.
Mine too! As difficult as it I never get tired of seeing it
lol same, alongside "a prophet".
this is brazil's best movie. The book is way way heavier. Thanks for react to this movie, man. We here in Brazil love when guys from other countries react to our stuff. Please react to more brazilian movies
Tropa de elite
Realmente um dos melhores filmes do nosso país!
Carandiru is a great one
Vai procurar oq fazer, fica se humilhando kkkk mendigo
@@dillashawsheik5932 vai procurar o que fazer, fica chorando em comentário no TH-cam kkkkkkk chorão
About the "voodoo" scene. Lil Zé was talking to a entity called Exu, a guardian spirit workshiped on African-Brazilian religions, such as Candomble and Umbanda. The man was a babalorixa, a Candomble priest, he was incorporated with the entity Exu, that gave his protection necklace to him, turning him from Lil Dice to Lil Zé.
The shocking part is that most of the kids had never NEVER acted in anything before. There is a documentary about the movie twenty years later or something. A girl talks about getting paid $200 bucks to be in the movie and spent it all on bracelets and jewelry. Amazing movie in my top ten since I first saw it.
The only actual actor in that movie at the time was Matheus Nachtergaele (the actor who played Carrot). All the other people in there were simply instructed on what to do. But some of the people became actual actors after this movie (like Lil Zé, Angélica and Steak-n-Fries)
Hi, I would like to explain some things about the movie and the actors:
1. The actor who played the "Lil Dice" aka "Lil Zé" as a child is not the same as the one who interpreted when he was already adult.
2. The producers of this movie wanted to show an exact image about what the life of the crime is like in the favelas. And it was so difficult to find trained actors for this kind of performance, they went to the Favelas and picked their own residents to interpret all these characters. For this, they taught the basics about acting and then finally got a good cast.
3. The film tells the story of a boy who saw the world crime grow inside the Favela (this explains the first scene where they ask him to get the chicken, and he looks forward and back, where one side had police and the other had criminals).
4. The little boy who took a shot at the foot had a genuine reaction. He said that the producers did not let the adult actors talk to the childrens. And they put him in a room and made him have the first contact with the Lil Zé interpret (it was scary and made him get afraid when they started to record the scene, resulting in expressions of fear and crying).
5. Don't be shocked by the violence they show in this movie, the intention was to show exactly how things works in the Favelas.
Great reaction!! 🇧🇷🤍
This should be pinned at the top.
this movie is the biggest injustice of the oscars. They changed the rating rules after him, as the old men at the Oscars said it was barbaric and not a movie and gave it terrible marks. he should have won the oscar no doubtb
Brazilian cinema is a masterpiece, extremely underrated, Brazilians have 40 years extreme experience building novels,their 80s and 90s novels are also masterpieces, yet because of the language barrier they are mostly only consumed by Portuguese speaking people... yet the acting you see here is just typical Brazilian pattern...
the acting level is really high there.
THANK YOU Brazilian cinema is sooo good and it's kinda frustrating that it's not super taught in world cinema classes ;-;
I from Brazilian thank you
Discordo, aqui no Brasil tem muito ator meia boca, que fica famoso fazendo novelas.
@@JalimRabeikkkkk ritmo de produção de novela é uma coisa e cinema é outra. Nada haver a comparação
No estoy tan acuerdo contigo.
Si bien está película es un ejemplo de cine mundial.
Creo que son contadas las películas (brasileñas) con tal nivel.
Tal vez tropa de élite.
Pero no es como si todas su pelis fueran un éxito
City of God and Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) makes for an intense double feature: both great Brazilian films, both based on true stories, both set in the favela underworld. One told from the point of view of the gangs, the other told from the point of view of the police special forces who have to deal with them. Recommend you checking out Elite Squad at some point.
nah man, elite squad is a kiddie pool compared to the ocean that is city of god
First time I watched this film as a kid it really scarred me, growing up in a favela and seeing a film about people who looked like me, spoke like me, lived more or less in a similar situation, getting killed and doing horrible things was terrifying.
Specially Shaggy, since he kinda looked like my older brother, that scene where he gets gunned down by cops was particularly impactful to me.
In the end none of us ever got involved in anything crime related, unfortunately a bunch of childhood friends did tho.
In the end the children say: "Have you ever heard of the red phalanx?" This is a faction that dominates organized crime in Brazil to this day.
They were originally known as Red Phalanx, but it's the same faction (Red Phalanx and Red Command) if I am not wrong.
@@marcuslala1404 you right :)
Dominates only in Rio
@@semmouse2355 tá desinformado moço. O cv tá no brasil todo já
Actually PCC is the one who commands organized crime in Brazil. They are in 23 states. With Red Command as second.
First saw this around 2008-9; it shot right to the top of my best-of-the-decade list, and has remained there ever since. Am always happy to see someone discover it.
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Hands down. I first watched it as a teenager when random movies would be on TV at like 2 am.
So glad you did this one. I think City of God is one of the best movies ever made.
I saw this movie the day it came out in NYC 2002, 3 days before I went to Copacabana for the first time! Me and my friend was like "Where the f#ck are we going? What are we getting into?!" 😍 We had the time over our lives ❤ Been to Rio 6 times total.😎
thats actually a good comment to show how fucked up things are here in brazil, even if some favelas are really close to the noble areas, people that live at the noble areas dont see or experiece 1% off what happens in the favelas, maybe u get robbed. politicians only care about hiding it from the rich and the tourists, i know thats something common i believe in the entire wolrd but here in brazil shit is reeeeally messy. makes me happy to see people from others countries, especially rich countries, watching those films that can really show what most of the population here go throught in a daily basis.
14:30 One of the realest reactions I've ever seen. Respect to you for appreciating the tragedy of the scene and not being afraid to show genuine emotion.
14:00 usually the parents were working desperately ro feed the family.
I actually work next to City of God. It’s modern, but the same violence happens these days. A few years back, a police incursion during the night resulted in dozens of dead minors
Hey, Mell. Great reaction, dude. I hope you are recovered from this already. When this movie was released, it was one of the favorites to win an Oscar for foreigner movie, but the academy rejected it for being "too violent" and "too fictional", "no country could be that violent". Well, they were wrong. That's a little slice of Brazil's reality.
"too fictional", "no country could be that violent"?!
These guys really needs a shock of reality.
I really liked these reaction. If you are interested in other Brazilian movies, I have some recommendations:
Bacurau (2019)
Besouro | The Assailant (2009)
Quando Eu Era Vivo | Wen I Was Alive (2014)
O Auto da Compadecida | A Dog's Will (2000)
Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho | The Way He Looks (2014)
Estômago (2007) :)
Carandiru
Terra em transe would be another great recommendation tough. Greetings from Limeira-SP.
A Dog's Will é foda menor
there's also "bicho de 7 cabeças"
Knockout Ned (or Rooster Ned) is Seu Jorge, a famous singer from Brazil. He's in Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He sings a ton of Bowie songs in Portugeuse. Even Bowie was impressed!
As a brazilian, we in the 30s watched this movie as kids! This is a really good movie because it shows the shocking reality the goes on here! Of course that's not the representation of the entire country, but we are pretty aware that everything there are 100% accurate, and to be honest, maybe reality can be even worse!
*O que notei nos filmes brasileiros (nacionais) é que eles sempre têm aquele realismo que torna o filme mágico. Seja "Tropa de Elite" ou "Cidade de Deus". São filmes onde o roteiro e os personagens podem existir ou ter existido. Não são filmes de ação onde parece algo exagerado, são filmes onde mostra pura violência na sociedade, e até assusta.*
Verdade, são filmes que faz você ficar pensando neles por dias
Pq não tem nenhum super-herói que não leva tiro e sempre acerta, como nos filmes de ação de Hollywood
Mas eu queria ver filme brasileiro tipo Vingadores tbm.
É porque Brasileiro ainda não consegue fazer um CGI sinistro.
Senão daqui a pouco até CurupiraVerso vai ter.
Sem contar o velozes e furiosos desafio no Catonho.
This movie is a straight up masterpiece.
One review compared this movie to Goodfellas, so I went to see it back in 2002 when it was still in theaters. I still think it's one of the most amazing films I've ever seen. Interesting to note that the only actor who had credits to his name was the guy who played Carrot. Everyone else was an amateur (except Alice Braga). There was a documentary that came out in 2013 (City of God - 10 Years Later) that caught up with the actors. Interesting to note that the people who actually lived in Cidade de Deus didn't exactly like the original film and didn't want to relive the experience that many felt glorified the violence many of them survived.
I cried with you man, and I already saw this movie several times. Meetings from Brazil and thanks for this reaction of this brilliant brazilian movie.
No pé ou na mão?
Crying.
Eu como brasileiro vejo mais esse filme como uma historia de horror-social mesmo, de lembrar que ao nosso redor existem realidades tao cheias de dor, desprezo e descaso completo com a vida
This is one of those films that stays in your head for a week.
I remeber seeing the trailer in the theater , i was like WTF is this , i gotta see it when it comes out. It blew me away watching it for the first time. There is also a mini-series wich they finish with a movie called "City of Men" alot of the actors from City of God are in it .
this movie is amazing. if you can get drawn in emotionally, then the movie has done its job. right in the same vein of film, check out Shottas
I'm so sorry.
Being a degenerate weeb I am, I subconsciously removed one of the Ts off that title and thought of a completely different story.
One of the best and my favorite film I've watched!
Caraca mané, é muito pika ver os gringo tudo veno o nosso cinema kkkkkkkkkkkkjk
O cara ate chorou man kkkkk
@@Bruh_Alvesz Normal chorar cara, mano n tem como vc ver aquelas cenas das crianças tomando tiro e sendo mortas sem chorar krl, só se vc for outro psicopata insensível igual ao zé pequeno pra n chorar vendo isso.
Esse cara tem personalidade, E MUITA por sinal. Skskkskss amo!
I would suggest another movie called "The Killing Fields", inspired by the story of a man escaping from Cambodia under Pol Pot in the 70s. He tragically died during a random mugging in the 1996
That's a good movie!
Ehhhhh I hated that movie
Didn't he die of stomach cancer
Didn't he die of stomach cancer
I just checked the guy playing him got shot and killed
Eu sei que você ficou assustado com o filme, ele realmente é bem violento, mas sinto lhe dizer que esse medo não é tão distante da realidade.
The most interesting thing about this movie is that at the time it was made, all the actors were amateurs. Recruited from underserved communities, most had never worked as actors in their lives. It is possible to see "Seu Jorge" almost anonymous at the beginning of her career, Alice Braga still a teenager.
Brazilian Portuguese is so heavy.. You can say f🦆ck like drinking water. But when you say porra it has that angry flavour 😂 you can feel it in your soul 😅
This movie is a masterpiece. You nailed on your comments throghout the movie about the cinematography and the concept of ciclical violence. Of course there is a lot of dramatization in it, but is not uncommun to see daily on the news similar situations portraited in the movie here in Brasil, unfortunately.
This movie is always hard to watch, I can never it finish with dry eyes.
watch beasts of no nations and hotel rwanda
@@aligmal5031 don cheadles’ best movie! People sleep on how beast the cheads is!
Cidade de Deus não ter um oscar é uma das maiores injustiças da história da academia.
Great reaction vid, and great movie. Extremely hard to watch, had me in tears knowing that life can be this hard for many in the world. As you said you see the cycle continues, people tossed aside and labeled as scum and used as fodder. The corruption starts high up, and unfortunately is the only thing that trickles down, and the majority of us just sit en mass, powerless and too afraid to fix. It’s a masterful film...and it highlights the fact that no matter where in the world you live, no matter your background, one can create something that can leave us in awe and remind us how similar we are.
It doesn't mean everyone in Brazil lives like this man we're in 2022 now this movie is old.
@@luisdascondongas6199 oh completely. In the US we have areas that are as bad as any area in the world. And we also have massive amounts of corruption and countless other issues. The US is trending downward, and most other nations are trending upwards. This is still an amazing movie, and an example of what other cultures can bring to cinema. Hollywood is not the end all be all, thank god.
@@BHSRugby1999 thx for sharing your Acknowledge about this and I'm glad you enjoyed this movie we have many others if wanna check another movie but from the police side there is a movie called elite squad/tropa de elite is also a good movie.
@@luisdascondongas6199 I read that one was awesome. Thanks! Any others let me know!
Hey Mell, I have been binge watching your reactions for the past week. I started with the disney content because is always nice to witness someone sseing disney for the first time and then I ended up watching all the rest of your videos. I'm Brazilian, it's nice to see my country culture represented in this beautiful production. We are very proud of City of God in here! Good job on your reactions! It has been fun to work listening to you react to my favorite films for the first time! I love how emotional you get in the movies, I'm like that too and feels like I'm rewatching some of my favorite movies with a friend. :)
I went fullscreen so I could read the subtitles...
I forgot portuguese was my native language for a brief period of time there xD
i think your portuguese sounded just fine
City of God is such a GOOD movie....ive never watched an English dubbed version....but I remeber it in english....so.much so...that I swear I can watch a nin sub titled version and hear the translation in my head
You should watch other brazilian movies: Elite Squad 1 and 2, and Carandiru
Carandiru fucking sucks.
@@tortureRoom what movie would you suggest? I've barely seen any brazilian cinema
@@Samson16436 Well neither have i, i just remember Carandiru being complete shit.
@@Samson16436 Elite Squad 1 and 2 are very similar to this movie, but focusing on the police point of view of the favela's crime. Very good movies!
@@Samson16436 o auto da compadecida (a dog's will) and central do brasil (central station) are both really good
I don't know if you would like a dog's will as much as brazilians do cause there's a lot of cultural references and brazilian inside jokes but it's worth it to give it a try
This is my favorite movie of all time, saw it on HBO almost 10 years ago, I recorded it and watched it probably a thousand times at this point. I think I'm actually learning to understand some of what their saying without having to read the subtitles. It started to become a movie a I slept too for awhile as well
One of the best movies of the last 25 years. Check out The Raid parts 1&2, Battle Royale and The Wave for more great foreign language films.🔥👍😎
A good movie, it recounts crude but real situations where the filth of drugs and vandalism take over the minds of young people.
The scene shooting the kids is probably the most disturbing scene I've watched in theaters.
One thing that most people missed was that at the very end, the kid says “did you guys hear about this Red Brigade?” referring to Comando Vermelho (red command), which is the cartel that runs most of the favelas in Rio and is also one of the biggest cartels in the World.
You want ready for this. 20 years on, and it's still one of the best hood movies.
I remember watching this in 2005 during my Brazil phase....I watched it several times along with City of Men (series & movie) as well as the City of God 10 years later documentary.
The little kid scene broke me for real 😢
This movie shows a lot of the problems here in Brazil, some representations are quite faithful, others are exaggerated, others just illustrated. But it depends a lot on the region and cities where you are (in the case of the movie, the region is Rio de Janeiro). Brazil is so BIG! There are regions so different that sometimes you have the feeling that you are not in the same country.
I saw Hardball as a kid too. I grew up playing baseball all the time so it was one of the films we all loved and it always made us cry. The kid that got killed wasn't the one u were thinking of. Jamal was the one who ended up in the gang life after he was kicked out of the league for being too old. The kid that died was G-Baby, he and his brother Kofi were going home when they both got caught in between a gang crossfire. Kofi lived but G-Baby died.
The Greatest South American film of all time and one of the Greatest ever Film in the world
I know its been a time, but if you ever see this, I'm gonna state some facts about City of God
One of the most impressive things about this movie is that the cast isn't of "well trained" actors, most of these kids were all citizen of the Favelas, part of a project to get of the streets. This is one of the reasons why all this looked so real and natural, because in a way, it was.
For most of them (if not all) this work was their first enything in front of a camera. Unfortunatelly, for not knowing anything about the industry (and not knowing the huge success it would be), their contracts was a small amount of money. Most of them have great careers here, but some (like Lil Dice/Zé) not so much.
Also, Zé is a nickname and stands por José, which is Joseph, so Zé pequeno (small, or little, yes)) would be Lil Joe. But I would translate it as Small Joe, it'd be more fitting in this context.
Anyways. I loved your reaction and analysis.
Take care
Also, "Dadinho" is a diminutive of Dado, which is a nickname for "Eduardo". So, an accurate translation for Dadinho would be "Eddie" or "Lil Eddie"
@@JoaoLucasK My God I never realized Dadinho came from Eduardo (now I know *Dado* Dolabella means Eduardo damn hahahaha). But Eddie is already an equivalant to Dudu. Maybe then Dadinho should be translated to Teddie or Neddie, would be more accurate
@@dalilianrochele
Well, Dadinho/Lil Zé's real name was José Eduardo Barreto Conceição, so yeah. Dado is for Eduardo lol
Your reaction touched me, so authentic and deep soul, thank you.
16:20 The word missed in Portuguese is the same as burned. So, when he burn a cigarette (!) with the girl phone number It is a poetic (and melancholic) scene.
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Oh gosh, totally worth the "like". Great reaction there brother. Even though i'm brazilian, i've never seen this movie. I wasn't prepared for that shot scene with the kids. I kinda of got emotional wacthing that scene alongside with u.
It's really a sad history. Great movie, in one of the most beautiful city in Brazil, but... All this violence is really terrifying.
The story of "Cidade de Deus", which is actually a neighborhood, took place due to an attempt by the city of Rio de Janeiro to clean the city (a hygienist attempt), from the poor and blacks, removing them from the most valued from Rio de Janeiro and taking them to a distant region. The "City of God" was a neighborhood where the poor were thrown, a distant place, without infrastructure, without work, without leisure, with nothing and, as it could not be otherwise, due to all this abandonment, it became a crime scene! There was no work for everyone, there was no education, nothing. The parents, most of them poor and black, had many children and had to go out to work and the children were left there, lost and without assistance, crime co-opted them, obviously!
Today crime in Rio de Janeiro is quite different. Practically those who command the crime are the militias (criminal police), who dominate the traffic, drugs, pay-TV (fraudulent), the supply of gas, electricity, commerce, everything! Everything nowadays is commanded by these militias, as I said, most of them police officers or ex-policemen! Crime has changed a lot! There is a strong connection between our current President of the Republic and the militias and organized crime! There was a "crime office" in the luxury condominium where the president lived, where the assassination of an important emerging black leader, Marielle Franco, was planned and executed! The right-hand man of the President's son, Queiroz, organized a scheme to steal the salary of employees of the municipality, Queiroz is a former policeman, with several crimes in his name (Bolsonaro's friend and his son, Flavio Bolsonaro)!
Pretty good portuguese pronunciation. Even with the expression "e aí".
While I agree that the kid Steak and Fries wasn't a man, collecting bodies ages you exponentially. This is my favorite foreign movie, top 3 movie overall, and the most underrated movie ever.
Wdym by collecting bodies ages you exponentially?
@@Phoenix-ph9qp Do you know mathematically what exponentially means? If so, apply it to age when committing murders when a youth.
You don’t even have to be a native Portuguese speaker or even understand Portuguese (obviously English subtitles) for that matter to enjoy City of God: one of the best movies ever made. Such an amazing story with strong characters
I saw it twice in Madison WI when it was first released and people couldn't handle a certain part of the movie and both times groups of people left early.
Was the scene.."hand or the foot"? Cuz that was rough to watch. Amazing film! In my top 10
The best movie I've ever seen, second to none.
"OMG, Steak..." were my exact words as well
Glad you got re uploads set up. I'll give you the watch time likes and whatever else you need
One of my all time favorites. Definitely would be in the Top Ten Crime films. I love the way it moves. It's operatic. The imagery. The delivery. The tragedy. The community. To think they were given the option of 2G or a cut of the profits and most of them took the cash option. They didn't think it was going to be big. Plus they hadn't seen that kind of money before. Good 10 year later follow up doc. Lil Zé is iconic. Benny is super cool. The Tender Trio set it off. Rocket is such a great juxtaposition.
It's very powerful to see how much this story impacted you, the empathy you showed was beautiful
It’s hard to find this movie thanks for sharing this bit of it I love Benny & Rocket 🤯💯🔥
What a finding, this channel is superb! The exact type of react I was looking for. Keep up the good work!
I’m from Brazil. Thank you for see our movies!
Não esqueçam que o Beijo da Mulher Aranha teu o Oscar a William Hurt e Pixote a Lei do mais Fraco é um grande filme.
Great movie, great reaction! Not to review but Pixote is another true story movie about childrens lives in the favelas. How about a review of Run Lola Run?
Bruh Your Reactions Are Priceless 🤣😭
Isso é o Brasil, tem que ter disposição mané!
One of the best gangster movies in my opinion.
Best reaction about this movie I ever seen. Thank you for this.
If you get a chance you should watch City Of Men. Also from the same production team, with a lot off the same actors, but very lighthearted about 2 young Black kids growing up in the Hood of City Of God.
very good, the channel makes more reacts of Brazilian films such as:
elite squad
the dogs will
Central station
carrandiru
Thanks for these recommendations, I loved City of God and have wanted to watch some other amazing films from Brazil. These are on my list!
@@BHSRugby1999 Elite Squad is even better than City of God
@@tomylionario nah it's not
Elite squad is awesome
@@tomylionario nunca.
one of the best movies ever made.
The "Red Brigade" (Falange Vermelha) the kids are talking about in the very end was the criminal organization that took over the drug trafficking at Rio. They soon became Comando Vermelho, a dissidence that took over the traffic not only in Rio but also another states until the 2000s, when militias entered the dispute.
One of the best movies ever made.... the story is a true one....
I first saw this movie when I was 13 and it blew me away. Stellar storytelling.
This the truely reality from 70's in Brazil
When you started dancing omg, it made me forget you was crying a few minutes ago😂😂😂