Gender: In the city of god Women are not given any major roles in the plot and the only women we see in the film are sides or girlfriends such as Shaggy’s and knockout Neds. when women are seen on screen they are treated very badly by men, especially lil ze who ends up sexually assaulting Knockouts neds girlfriends.

Aesthetics:

Realism: The use of using Rocket as a narrator makes the film feel more realistic as it gives the film a documentary style tone. Merellies does this because this film is based of a true story in brazil and he wants to get that story across to the audience.

Tone: The tone in city of god would be regarded as serious and gritty. This is done by merellies to highlight the problems in brazil at the time the film was set. Problems such as conflict and civil unrest had been overlooked by the Brazilian government for a long time. an example of a scene that captures the serious gritty tone of the film would be the scene where lil ze shoots the children as it was very rare to see child violence in films.

Visual style: The colour grading in the film is split into 2 different sections. in the first section the colours are toned more lighter and softer to match the narrative of the film. IN the second section the colours are toned as darker and sharper to match the narrative at that point in time such as during the war between lil ze and carrots gangs.