This Brazilian film won international acclaim. It is about a boy who grows up surrounded by gangs and slum violence. He sees how pointless this bloodshed is, yet cannot escape it since it is his home. In the 1960s and 70s a teenager named Li'l Ze grows up to be a powerful gang leader. He destroys another man's life in the 80s, causing that man to become a rival gang leader. Blood shed is imminent. The main character, the narrator, is placed between two sides in a war zone. He survives by photographing both sides violence and bloodshed and selling those pictures to a newspaper. In doing that, he hopes to one day move out of the slums.
In the slums of Rio De Janeiro, the police do little to interfere with gang wars and bloodshed. This film is raw and gritty, realistic. Many people compare the film to Goodfellas, however, this was a much darker film.
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