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Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
...tomb of Haitian strongman Amiot Metayer, who was murdered in September, can be found in the middle of a seaside slum in the city of Gonaives. His bust sits prominently under a white awning, accompanied by a photo of Metayer's cadaver with his eyes poked out. His heart had also been removed. The grave is surrounded by offerings of candles, a bottle of orange soda, a picture of the Virgin Mary and a bottle of rum. These days in Gonaives, Metayer's mourners have been making another kind of tribute to his memory: hunting down officials of the government...
Fate could hardly be less kind to the 2 million Filipinos estimated to live in the slums of Manila?labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell...