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CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves 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. City of God screens...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves 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. City of God screens...
...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...
...journey to Kenya with aid workers from Care International, is also a departure from his usual persona. The millions of fans who have made Bryson's nine books worldwide best sellers will find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care's standing in the community," he says, explaining his decision to rein in his biting prose. "This is primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate all proceeds from...
With the addition of a third MC, Trinity is a formidable and substantive hip hop album with intelligent lyrics, characterized by running metaphors and conceits. In the catchy single, “Tainted,” Slum Village demonstrates a seamless bond between lyric, flow, idea and beats. Baatin discusses the problems in the hip hop industry with lyrical dexterity: “Scandal love, cause love full of scandal / . . .Well it’s the same tainted love in the music business / People they lose they brain just to get up in this / Let?...