10/10 – I really liked this Film and found it very immersive in capturing my attention, Although scenes were fast paced, they where easy to follow and through the films non-linear structure this helped also. For me the most memorable scene was when Lil Ze teaches the runts a lesson by shooting them in the feet. This stuck with me as its intense and disturbing in nature and really contrasts to what you usually see within films we have previously studied such as Casablanca that pacify Gun violence with their dramatized panto. Through the performance of the child actors alone, this really creates the impression they have genuinely been shot and makes you feel sorry for them.

This was an iconic scene as through posters I have seen it before, it also acts as one of the few single sombre moments where characters get to experience happiness, before the reality of the City of God takes it away from them.