Finally, finally, finally
Last night I received "City of God" from Netflix. I have been waiting for this movie to come out on dvd ever since it left the theaters a year ago (it had a brief come-back around Oscar time, but I missed it then as well). I promptly popped it into the dvd player and settled in for the ride. It's wild and wooly (about as violent as your average "Sopranos" episode), and great. I highly recommend it, if you like a good stylized crime saga. At the end there was some brief information about it being based on real people, but unfortunately, there wasn't more info about it in the special features. There WAS a documentary about the state of the drug wars in the favelas in Brazil, which was pretty intriguing. If you dig this kind of movie, you also might want to check out "Pixote" about street kids in Brazil from 1981. The amazing thing about that movie is that the kid who played Pixote was an actual street kid, and did an impressive job. That is a particularly brutal movie, though, so be warned.