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...originally detained. They discovered large quantities of bomb-making material, manuals on chemical warfare, and equipment to manufacture false credit cards and identity documents, as well as a cache of timers, fuses and remote-control devices. According to Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, the gang was preparing a chemical attack. Two days before and 950 km away in Badia Polesine, a remote town of 10,000 in Italy's industrial northeast, Carabinieri paramilitary police raided an abandoned farmhouse after monitoring a group of immigrants suspected of holding illegal weapons. No weapons were found, but sniffer dogs...
...toughest thug in the Rio slum of Cidade de Deus stands impatiently outside a brothel as his gang robs the patrons. Miffed at being excluded from the fun, he strides in and kills everyone. It's his first mass murder--the ideal calling card for a precocious psychopath. Li'l Ze, as he will come to be known, is 9 years...
...vital new Latin American cinema, and the fiercest. Next to it, Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien seem like slouchers. The storytelling and filmmaking vigor never lets up. The camera takes a bullet's point of view as it ricochets toward a victim; the tangled history of a gang's hideout is shown in two dozen supple dissolves; a bank heist is replayed to clear up a murder mystery. Because the director has brought his monsters and their world to teeming life, City of God conquers your scruples and stokes an appreciation for the feral strength of the doomed...
...moral queasiness, as one gang is wiped out and a still younger one rises to claim the spoils. You wonder if the next generation of Li'l Zes will pop out of their mothers' wombs, guns blazing, ready to take over. --By Richard Corliss
...genes and a bad environment, and the evidence is strong that the recipe is cooked up very early in life. Until about a decade ago, most experts assumed that it was a violent or impoverished upbringing that led to violent adults. "We're depraved," says one of the gang members in West Side Story, "on account of we're deprived." Indeed, studies had suggested a correlation between a harsh childhood and later criminality. The link was strongest for those who had been physically abused as kids. Still, not all abused children grow up to perpetrate violence in turn. Something else...