City Of God Analysis

While these movies were a lot a like in many ways throughout their esseense and what the story is about, I liked City of God the best. I liked the fact that the movie was very fast paced, in color and it seems for some reason more like comic/action movie. The movie would have fast zooms on a characters faces and we could see the camera physically move and shake which you normally don't in movies now, it was more like a documentary than a all in all fake movie. We see how Rocket grows up and he tells us the story of how he got to where he is now, which was in between two gangs. We can see how the movie goes from a small situation to an even bigger one. Then the cycle starts all over again. In the end, the group of kids who were in the gangs to …show more content…
It is an inevitable cycle. Right from the bat the children of this group had already been part of gangs and they had fired a gun. In the beginning the kids are almost scared of the guns. We see the movies color changes, sometimes it has a bright orange tone and sometimes it has a gray tone or a blue tone and I think it does a good job on showing the emotions through the story. The movie shows a lot about how a person tries to overcome these obstacles in these conditions and whilst everyone else either stays in the city or becomes part of the violence, Rocket is able to get out because he fights for what he wants to do which is be a photographer.
On the other hand, La Haine takes a different approach. None of them really want to get out do they? They want to stay and fight. They really dont take another direction or look of the outcomes. Once Vinz wants to try to kill a police he tries to kill, but realizes he is not a killer he thought he wanted to be. He