City of God

2002 · dir. Fernando Meirelles · 129 min

“If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.”

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.