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Laramie Movie Scope:
City of God (Ciudad de Deus)

Violent, realistic look at Rio slum

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by Patrick Ivers, Film Critic
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City of God – violent, very realistic look (based on actual story of a boy, Busca-Pe or Rocket, who survived to become a newspaper photographer) at hoodlums and drug-gangs in Ciudad de Deus (City of God) slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; many of the children in the movie were actual street urchins; subtitles.

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