City of God Put Brazilian Cinema on the Map

In the final scene of the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, Doughboy (Ice Cube) talks about documentaries covering violent places around the world. Where’s the coverage in his world, South Central, Los Angeles? “Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood,” he says. A box office success and multiple Oscar nominee, this was the birth of the “hood film,” with subsequent movies trading South Central for Brooklyn, Paris, or Hackney, or even the term “hood” for “favela.” One of the best in the genre, City of God released in 2002, based on the book by Paulo Lins and directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund.

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