City of God revisited
It started when Rocket were already a teenager and was caught between Li’l Z gang and cops. He then narrated the story of the City of God.
The story started with the introduction of the “Tender Trio”, included are Clipper, Shaggy, and Goose. Chaos was no big deal in the City of God, it happens from time to time. The “Tender Trio” started to hold up a gas truck in front of their brothers only to get little amount of cash, during the operation, a cruel boy, thirsty for blood was there named Li’ L Dice, Li ‘l Dice decided to rob a motel together with the “Tender Trio”. He was assigned to shoot the glass incase the police arrived, The “Tender Trio” robbed all cash of the fuckers inside the motel and Li’ l Dice shot the glass so they assumed that police arrived so they escaped. Li’l Dice entered the motel and shot everyone in the room. The “Tender Trio” escaped the motel through a car and unfortunately hit a small cafeteria, Shorty then called the police to tell that the “Tender Trio” were hiding in the woods. The “Tender Trio” then separated their ways, Goose had an affair with Shorty’s wife so Shorty killed his wife, when the police arrested Shorty, they saw a member of the “Tender Trio” and killed him in front of his girlfriend. Goose was then killed by Li’l Dice because Goose is getting the share of Li’l Dice’s best friend Benny, which makes Li’l Dice angry and shot down Goose. One of the “Tender Trio” decided to repent and turns to God. That is the end of the story of the “Tender Trio”, but the story of Rocket and the City of God is far from over.
The story is narrated by Rocket, a boy who grew up in the “City of God”, he knows almost everything because he is the younger brother of Goose, one of the “Tender Trio”. Rocket’s dream and passion is to become a photographer. He then decided to involved himself to crime like his brother, but people he tries to victim seems to be “too good” for him to victim, an example is Knockout Ned and the lady in the store. Li’l Dice then grew up and he still is thirsty for power and fame, he was then known as Li’l Z. Li’l Z then killed every gang and possible competition in the City of God, except the gang of Carrot who is a good friend of his best friend Benny. He killed every competition in the City to attain peace in the City, to make the City more attractive to Rich tourist. Business in the city involves everybody, from children to adults, every person has their role in selling drugs, either one is the seller of the drug, or he is the look out for police. He wanted to avoid war or crimes happening in his territory to avoid police going to his area to avoid intervention of the police in his business.
Rocket eventually grew up and he was then in love with a girl, during that time the girl had a boyfriend, but Rocket didn’t lose hope and eventually he win the heart of his girl he wanted to get laid. Rocket introduces the girl to Benny, but unfortunately because of the so called love and money, Benny got the girl from Rocket. Benny and his girl decided to leave the business and start a new life, so Benny decided to threw a party. Li’l Z was very jealous because he had everything he wants except for 1 thing, girls. He only have girl when he either uses force or he pays for it and now he doesn’t like that. He then invited a girl to the dance floor but later he was turn down by the girl. One of Carrot’s men misfired and kills Benny instead of killing Li’l Z, because of this, Lil’ Z wanted to revenged the death of his best friend. Li’l Z then raped the girl he liked and eventually turns him down in the dance floor in front of the girl’s boy friend, Knockout Ned. Ned then decided to take revenge on Li’l Z so he the join with the gang of Carrot. Li’l Z wanted to see himself in a picture but his gang doesn’t know how to use one, so they called up Rocket, a photographer to take some pictures. Rocket took some pictures of the gang and later was published in the papers, he thought he was dead meat, but later he found out that Li’l Z was very happy that his gang was on papers, he wanted to show their power and wealth. Carrot’s gang started to hold up banks, and started to collect big guns to prepare their selves for the main battle. Then the setting of the story went back from where it all began. Rocket was caught in between by Li’l Z gang and police, then Carrot’s gang appeared and the war started. Li’l Z was then caught by the police and the police got all his wealth so he need to start again from scratch, he then ordered the kids to start selling again, but the kids mutinied because Li’l Z was very cruel to the other kids. The kids used the guns given by Li’l Z to kill Li’l Z. Li’l Z is dead. Rocket took pictures of Li’l Z. The movie of City of God ended but the story of it will never end. The movie uses flash back settings, so it ended on where it all started.
Now for the reaction:
1st of all, the film is based on a true to life story, all violence and crime in the film is on a true to life basis, we might think that it is too exaggerate because kids in the film/ story holds guns and uses guns to kill people. Kids at a very young age started to sell drugs.
Chaos was no big deal in this film. Crime and violence in this film is not only for adult but for children as well. Everything that happens in the film happens because of poverty, poverty is 1 major reason why people do bad things, people sell drugs in order to buy food, people robbed each other to get what they wanted. After they stole something, they bought narcotics to ease their wants. It all happens because of poverty and we Filipinos are aware of that, but we are very blind that it doesn’t apply to very country.
1st when I watched the film. I don’t believe that there places that children uses guns to survive, students should be at school studying and not on streets playing with their gun. It is in our culture that teaches us that children should use their time studying and not loitering on streets. But their culture teaches and force the children to adapt to reality and its environment that school will not make them free from hunger instead money will free them from hunger. I cant believe that violence is very often in that place. If I were 1 of them, I would choose to die than to see blood shedding everywhere.
It is very ironic that the film is titled City of God, when I bought the DVD, I thought that it was very religious, and then when I watched the film, I was very curious on how this violent film will be connected to Christ, so I looked at the back of the DVD and read what it says. So I understand why people are lucky if they reached the age of 21, because of violence and killings happening everywhere.
Children in the film were thought how to use guns at the young age, and they were trained to have a heart of stone and they were thought the ideology that the strong shall live and the weak shall die, people in the film were not afraid of death, as if it was part of life to die. People killing people is not an issue in the film, the thirst for power and fame is very evident in the film, they kill human as if they were animals. People in the city of God do everything just to get what they want, Li’l Z killed every competition in the city to have what he want. He wants power and fame, and especially he wants to see blood. The film is a multi awarded film because of the morals it involves. It focuses more on reality and not fiction, the film is very nice but 1 thing that I hate to see but indeed true to life; violence.
In the film, there are people/ characters dying every 5 minutes in the film. It is very annoying to see such film but indeed a reality. It happens in any part of the world but we are not just aware of it or I must say we are aware but we don’t take any actions from it. If that kind of violence happens in the Philippines, what will my parents do? Will I also hold a gun and shoot around people? Personally I can’t tell, it is maybe the environment or culture will teach me how to survive in this world. People hunt food in order to survive. People kills for power, killing is still used today in order to survive. Li’l Z use this ideology so that his business will continue, if he will not kill his competitors, someday it might be a threat for him also. Now, with the inventions of weapons of mass destruction, more people are more likely to die. If we use this technology to kill one another, then we can say that our mind and we are murderers as well.
The story started with the introduction of the “Tender Trio”, included are Clipper, Shaggy, and Goose. Chaos was no big deal in the City of God, it happens from time to time. The “Tender Trio” started to hold up a gas truck in front of their brothers only to get little amount of cash, during the operation, a cruel boy, thirsty for blood was there named Li’ L Dice, Li ‘l Dice decided to rob a motel together with the “Tender Trio”. He was assigned to shoot the glass incase the police arrived, The “Tender Trio” robbed all cash of the fuckers inside the motel and Li’ l Dice shot the glass so they assumed that police arrived so they escaped. Li’l Dice entered the motel and shot everyone in the room. The “Tender Trio” escaped the motel through a car and unfortunately hit a small cafeteria, Shorty then called the police to tell that the “Tender Trio” were hiding in the woods. The “Tender Trio” then separated their ways, Goose had an affair with Shorty’s wife so Shorty killed his wife, when the police arrested Shorty, they saw a member of the “Tender Trio” and killed him in front of his girlfriend. Goose was then killed by Li’l Dice because Goose is getting the share of Li’l Dice’s best friend Benny, which makes Li’l Dice angry and shot down Goose. One of the “Tender Trio” decided to repent and turns to God. That is the end of the story of the “Tender Trio”, but the story of Rocket and the City of God is far from over.The story is narrated by Rocket, a boy who grew up in the “City of God”, he knows almost everything because he is the younger brother of Goose, one of the “Tender Trio”. Rocket’s dream and passion is to become a photographer. He then decided to involved himself to crime like his brother, but people he tries to victim seems to be “too good” for him to victim, an example is Knockout Ned and the lady in the store. Li’l Dice then grew up and he still is thirsty for power and fame, he was then known as Li’l Z. Li’l Z then killed every gang and possible competition in the City of God, except the gang of Carrot who is a good friend of his best friend Benny. He killed every competition in the City to attain peace in the City, to make the City more attractive to Rich tourist. Business in the city involves everybody, from children to adults, every person has their role in selling drugs, either one is the seller of the drug, or he is the look out for police. He wanted to avoid war or crimes happening in his territory to avoid police going to his area to avoid intervention of the police in his business.
Rocket eventually grew up and he was then in love with a girl, during that time the girl had a boyfriend, but Rocket didn’t lose hope and eventually he win the heart of his girl he wanted to get laid. Rocket introduces the girl to Benny, but unfortunately because of the so called love and money, Benny got the girl from Rocket. Benny and his girl decided to leave the business and start a new life, so Benny decided to threw a party. Li’l Z was very jealous because he had everything he wants except for 1 thing, girls. He only have girl when he either uses force or he pays for it and now he doesn’t like that. He then invited a girl to the dance floor but later he was turn down by the girl. One of Carrot’s men misfired and kills Benny instead of killing Li’l Z, because of this, Lil’ Z wanted to revenged the death of his best friend. Li’l Z then raped the girl he liked and eventually turns him down in the dance floor in front of the girl’s boy friend, Knockout Ned. Ned then decided to take revenge on Li’l Z so he the join with the gang of Carrot. Li’l Z wanted to see himself in a picture but his gang doesn’t know how to use one, so they called up Rocket, a photographer to take some pictures. Rocket took some pictures of the gang and later was published in the papers, he thought he was dead meat, but later he found out that Li’l Z was very happy that his gang was on papers, he wanted to show their power and wealth. Carrot’s gang started to hold up banks, and started to collect big guns to prepare their selves for the main battle. Then the setting of the story went back from where it all began. Rocket was caught in between by Li’l Z gang and police, then Carrot’s gang appeared and the war started. Li’l Z was then caught by the police and the police got all his wealth so he need to start again from scratch, he then ordered the kids to start selling again, but the kids mutinied because Li’l Z was very cruel to the other kids. The kids used the guns given by Li’l Z to kill Li’l Z. Li’l Z is dead. Rocket took pictures of Li’l Z. The movie of City of God ended but the story of it will never end. The movie uses flash back settings, so it ended on where it all started.Now for the reaction:
1st of all, the film is based on a true to life story, all violence and crime in the film is on a true to life basis, we might think that it is too exaggerate because kids in the film/ story holds guns and uses guns to kill people. Kids at a very young age started to sell drugs.
Chaos was no big deal in this film. Crime and violence in this film is not only for adult but for children as well. Everything that happens in the film happens because of poverty, poverty is 1 major reason why people do bad things, people sell drugs in order to buy food, people robbed each other to get what they wanted. After they stole something, they bought narcotics to ease their wants. It all happens because of poverty and we Filipinos are aware of that, but we are very blind that it doesn’t apply to very country.
1st when I watched the film. I don’t believe that there places that children uses guns to survive, students should be at school studying and not on streets playing with their gun. It is in our culture that teaches us that children should use their time studying and not loitering on streets. But their culture teaches and force the children to adapt to reality and its environment that school will not make them free from hunger instead money will free them from hunger. I cant believe that violence is very often in that place. If I were 1 of them, I would choose to die than to see blood shedding everywhere.It is very ironic that the film is titled City of God, when I bought the DVD, I thought that it was very religious, and then when I watched the film, I was very curious on how this violent film will be connected to Christ, so I looked at the back of the DVD and read what it says. So I understand why people are lucky if they reached the age of 21, because of violence and killings happening everywhere.
Children in the film were thought how to use guns at the young age, and they were trained to have a heart of stone and they were thought the ideology that the strong shall live and the weak shall die, people in the film were not afraid of death, as if it was part of life to die. People killing people is not an issue in the film, the thirst for power and fame is very evident in the film, they kill human as if they were animals. People in the city of God do everything just to get what they want, Li’l Z killed every competition in the city to have what he want. He wants power and fame, and especially he wants to see blood. The film is a multi awarded film because of the morals it involves. It focuses more on reality and not fiction, the film is very nice but 1 thing that I hate to see but indeed true to life; violence.
In the film, there are people/ characters dying every 5 minutes in the film. It is very annoying to see such film but indeed a reality. It happens in any part of the world but we are not just aware of it or I must say we are aware but we don’t take any actions from it. If that kind of violence happens in the Philippines, what will my parents do? Will I also hold a gun and shoot around people? Personally I can’t tell, it is maybe the environment or culture will teach me how to survive in this world. People hunt food in order to survive. People kills for power, killing is still used today in order to survive. Li’l Z use this ideology so that his business will continue, if he will not kill his competitors, someday it might be a threat for him also. Now, with the inventions of weapons of mass destruction, more people are more likely to die. If we use this technology to kill one another, then we can say that our mind and we are murderers as well.
posted by PJ at Wednesday, December 07, 2005
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