歐美電影簡介：《上帝之城》

《上帝之城》是2002年由費爾南多·梅里爾斯執(zhí)導，馬修斯·納克加勒、艾莉絲·布拉加、索·豪黑主演的一部驚悚電影。電影改編自半自傳式小說《God's Town》，于2002年8月30日巴西上映。影片圍繞上帝之城展開，一個出生于貧困家庭的黑人小孩布斯卡，弱小的他害怕成為一個罪犯，滿足于一份低薪的工作。因為他擁有一雙善于發(fā)掘生活的藝術家的眼睛。最后，他成為了一位職業(yè)攝影師。

City of God is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. The story was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins. However, the movie characters are not fictitious and the plot is based upon real events. It follows the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s. The end of the film shows the war between the drug dealer Li'l Zé and the criminal Knockout Ned. City of God was ranked third in Film4's "50 Films to See Before You Die", and No.6 on The Guardian's "The 25 Best Action Movies Ever".

The movie's tagline is: "If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you", (aPortuguese proverb similar to the English "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"). It describes the hopelessness of being involved in criminal activity in Rio's favelas. Most of the cast were from real-life favelas, including the real-life City of God itself. About a hundred children were hand-picked and placed into an "actors' workshop" for several months. Their training focused on simulating authentic street-war scenes, such as a hold-up, a scuffle, a shoot-out, etc. After filming, it was too dangerous for the young actors to return to their old lives in the favelas and so help groups were set up for them to build lives elsewhere.