City of God Prototype

City of God is based on the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

The protagonist of this movie is not limited to one character, but the slum is the protagonist. This place is full of lawlessness, violence, and danger. All the stories that happen throughout the film are told to us through the eyes of a child. Busca, the male protagonist in the play, hates crime and does not want to be a criminal, so he is content with a job with a low salary.

But precisely because his vision is different from others and his understanding of things is also different, he uses his own understanding to explore the uniqueness in life. Eventually, he became a professional photographer.

In this movie, in order to show a sense of reality, the director chose actors from slum residents. Moreover, after filming the movie, these temporary loan actors continued to live in the slums, and the "blacklist" in the movie became the death list in reality.

According to informed netizens, the actors in the film actually formed a gang in the slums of Rio de Janeiro in the end, but they do not know whether this statement is true or false and there is no way to verify it.