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me in spreading and sharing nuggets of visual greatness. Love
photograpy? Love film? Watch this film you will love it.
I was digging through my old DVD collection the other day and
decided to watch "City of God". I'd not seen it for ages so popped
it on. It was better than I remember; trust me when I say that it's
up there with the Goonies and Shawshank
I 'm a photography fan and love how pure and accessible it is. I
find it fascinating how we can capture moments in time that would
usually pass us by and be forgotten, sometimes these are pivotal
and defining moments in people lives. A photograph invites us to
create and interpret our own narrative with the subject. More
importantly to me, we get the chance to work out who and what the
photographer is about and what motivates them?
In short the Portuguese subtitled Cidade de Deus (City of God)
delivers this. We follow a young chap living in the notorious city
of god slum (Rio de Janeiro) living alongside drugs, violence slum
politics. His story and camera is sometimes our voyeuristic view
into slum life, capturing both beautiful horrific images as the
stories unfold. Some moments he is shooting as a survival mechanism
defining key moments in his live, his motivation is that it could
be his ticket out of there.
Feels real, and captures real beauty in an unconventional way.
Want to know what I mean by that, then watch the film or borrow it
from me and we can discuss on here.
Writers:Paulo Lins (novel),Bráulio Mantovani (screenplay)
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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