I’ve not seen this film for so long, and the reason for this may have been universal acclaim; I turned slightly afraid of watching it in case it’d turn out to be pap, and just shunned it for other stuffs, like Paris Hilton’s “The Hottie and The Nottie”. Well. Here’s a real nose-burn. The film is really, really good. The cinematography hit me first. Inventive, taking chances, funny. The characters and the narrator followed, luring me, leading me on, jumping about chronologically. Kids growing up in the City of God, a favela (shanty town) in Rio de Janeiro, going from petty to heavy crime, a tale taped together mostly due to Buscapé, a boy with a heart of gold who gets mixed into it all. I shan’t say more about the synopsis, but crime, love, days in the sun and nights in cold sweat make this a film to remember and divulge in pleasure and pain. Strongly recommendable.