While it is true that Meirelles doesn’t quite mention the politics going on during the timeline, the film is not completely without it nor does this fact take away from the horrors that he presented in the film. The City of God (Meirelles 2002) mentions the fact that the poor were sent to these favelas so they were kept out of the growing city. The film also depicts how corrupt the government can be within the favelas. It shows that not only were the people of the city corrupted by drugs and money, the police were just as corrupt. After getting arrested, the audience sees Li’l Zé being released by the police with no consequences from law enforcement while Carrot is taken to jail (Meirelles 2002). We, as the film’s audience, can see that the government is not in working order just by the fact that such a large population can be run by drugs and gangs without any interference from the
While it is true that Meirelles doesn’t quite mention the politics going on during the timeline, the film is not completely without it nor does this fact take away from the horrors that he presented in the film. The City of God (Meirelles 2002) mentions the fact that the poor were sent to these favelas so they were kept out of the growing city. The film also depicts how corrupt the government can be within the favelas. It shows that not only were the people of the city corrupted by drugs and money, the police were just as corrupt. After getting arrested, the audience sees Li’l Zé being released by the police with no consequences from law enforcement while Carrot is taken to jail (Meirelles 2002). We, as the film’s audience, can see that the government is not in working order just by the fact that such a large population can be run by drugs and gangs without any interference from the