City of Men

As Seen on the SUNDANCE CHANNELFrom the team behind the Academy Award®-nominated feature CITY OF GOD including directors Fernando Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDNER) and K tia Lund comes the hit Brazilian television series CITY OF MEN a comedy/drama about two teenage boys growing up in a dangerous Rio de Janeiro slum starring Darlan Cunha and Douglas Silva featured in the motion picture that inspired this series.The CITY is a shantytown located in one of the many mountains of Rio de Janeiro. The MEN are two 13-year-old kids Laranjinha and Acerola. This series brilliantly mixes humor and reality to explore life in the "favelas" and in particular the indomitable spirit of two best friends growing up in one of most volatile communities in the world.System Requirements:Run Time: 570 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 660200314125 Manufacturer No: PALMDV3141
Customer Review: Close to being brilliant!!
"If you die your son will be like us. Fatherless." From a film-makers point of view, this film is a daunting task. It has many characters but still grasps your attention. There are so many very good foreign language films nowadays. I thought Tsotsi was top notch and now, City of Men. I mean, wow! The characters in the film are young men involved in gangs, carefully woven in their anger and paranoid youth is a sense of dread and being doomed. Excellent drama. This is a must watch for anyone who's remotely interested. There will be a scene where you will laugh really really hard. There's a little kid in the film that you'll want to cuddle. You'll never want to live the character's life though. Also ... it actually made me think about something most men don't ever think of. It's about fatherhood. Before I become incoherent, I'll just end by saying, this film is going to do really well and is a must must watch. Thankyou for reading.
Customer Review: EXCELLENT FOLLOW-UP TELEVISION SERIES IN THE SPIRIT OF CITY OF GOD
This series does not follow the exact story or timeline as the movie City Of God but it takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the Favela. I was entertained and pleased with the acting, cinematography, and realness. I almost felt that I was there and I could have been there in my younger years.

Andrew Adamson's vision of Lewis' Narnia again impresses and stuns viewers with breath-taking on location shots, impressively high quality special effects, and direction of a well-organised cast. For those who know the story, there are a few changes made for cinematic presentation, but nothing that alters the story drastically and perhaps the changes did make for smoother viewing. Prince Caspian is definitely holds the audience's attention as it unfolds a slightly predictable, but delightful and exciting fantasy story.

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The cast of the film was well put together, if for no other reason, the characters whom appeared in the previous film returned in whole and the newer characters were lesser known, but high quality actors and actresses. While the cast was grand and for the most brought the film credibility, it was the special effects and the non-human characters that filled out the tale to make it more enjoyable. Talking animals, dwarves, centaurs, minotaurs, et cetera coloured the screen and passed as completely "human" characters. The battles scenes offered great presentations of height and shape difference between the humans and the Narinians, giving the audience a sense of reality on which to attach their suspension of disbelief.

The Lewis books are subtly Christian in nature, which is to be expected, given Lewis' religious background, but the film, however, takes a rather large wooden mallet and whops you over the head with Christianity. From more blatant dialogue between Aslan and Lucy to suggestions that warriors in the film have become Christian and other sneaky was of throwing religion at the viewer, Adamson's decisions concerning the Christian nature of Narnia is not left to the imagination in the least. Regardless, it does not over power the story to the point of being distracting.

My singular complaint was the music at the end of the film. The entire movie is presented in a serious and consistently themed soundtrack until the last scene where a sappy, poorly executed, horribly out-of-place song appears to make you want to run screaming from the cinema! Being an ethnomusicologist and musician, I thought it was simply my snobbery that harboured those feelings, but alas, without deviation, all of the people with whom I have spoken about the music at the end (many without me mentioning it first) have expressed their severe dislike for the choices made. Too bad. The film carries itself so well until those last few seconds.

Overall, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a well-done work and stands to draw even more fans to the next film and return to the books on which is was based. An excellent movie-going experience which I highly recommend.

Will Connor
Percussionist/Musicologist/Avid Movie Goer
London, UK/Honolulu, HI

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