Friday, May 06, 2016
Another place
Rio de Janeiro built a separate city for their slums.
It takes the riff raft out of the main city and puts all the problem people together in one place.
This might be the most violent movie I have ever seen. And I do not mean the kind of violence we see from Hollywood.
This is down and dirty, brutal violence perpetrated by the people on each other.
The film is quite realistic and sometimes hard to bear but it tells a story of hope and redemption.
One kid who finds a camera begins to take pictures of what he sees. A friend who has made it to work in a newspaper develops it for him and the photos are seen by a feature writer.
One thing leads to another and the kid ends up back on the streets as a photographer for the newspaper.
But a lot happens on the way to this barely entry position. And that is what we see going on here.
It has a very high IMDb rating, in the 8's. Unusual.
Edge of the seat, the film moves fast and hard, surely to a climax.
I liked it a lot and would not mind seeing it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
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