A Film Analysis Of The Film: City Of God

In modern day Latin America people struggle for even the most basic of human needs such as water, sanitation, and food. Governments in many countries do little to help lift the people out of poverty and give way to a higher quality of life for the poor while letting companies with vast resources come into their country, take their resources, and in return do little other than pay a meager wage to those who labor for these companies. The systems that are put in place by forced democracy are meant to keep separation between the rich and the poor. Three movies that depict how these systems work, or don’t work, are City of God, Even the Rain, and Trinkets and Beads. These movies have commonalities that the people of Latin America deal with day to day like loyalty, poverty, drug trafficking, slums, and exploitation of the indigenous people. …show more content…
A poverty stricken community is violently taken over by gangs who sell drugs and murder to make their way to power. Throughout the movie there are scenes of corruption shown in the form of police taking brides in order for gangs to operate freely. Even with gang violence happening all around them, the people stay loyal to their community, in an early scene 2 young men crash a car into a restaurant and tell the patrons they saw nothing. When the police arrived and started asking questions, everyone kept quiet as if nothing happened. Aside from loyalty the movie illustrates the separation of race in a scene where a man by the name “Carrot” is appointed to be the dealer in the up-scale areas because any other race would be harassed by the police more