City Of God - HOMEWORK 2

Narrative 

City of God uses narrative in a complex way, manipulating the timeframe, and using a narrator to lead the audience through the film. The narratir is inside the narrative narrating in the first person. The narrative doesn’t fall easily into the usual theory. There is certainly three parts to the film which is start, middle and end. The start of the film is after all sequence that actually heralds the end of the film , and apart from being a dramatic sequence that serves to engage the audience, but is show an understanding of the changed circumstances of the city, and makes the antics of the Tender Trio look rather tame compared with the later action.
The audience is introduced to the characters and their backgrounds when they were younger. In the middle of the film there is a flash back through the characters younger years in the 1970's and 1980's to the present day. Comparing how they were then to how they are now. The themes in the film City Of God are Jealousy, violence, poverty, revenge, loyalty, fiends, betrayal and morals. The portrayal throughout the film is that the gangsters are always after each other's businesses, money and drugs. The main genre for the gangster film is violence. The themes in the City Of God such as violence show if you use violence you might get a power over some one or either business.

Genre

The film genre for City of God is Gangster. The Genre is established through the motel scene in the middle of the film. There is a sense of realism throughout the film due to the use of location and the use of children when they are fighting or committing another act of violence.
 The characters don't have a good education and they struggle is shown through the different characters lifestyles which my by coused by drugs, weapons and violence in the family or in the area that they live.  The genre is made clear to the audience through the use of a narrator and the subtitles on the screen which explains the place or the year when this has happend also use of violence, language and drugs, personalities portrayed through the characters, gang wars.

Target Audience 
 The target audience for film City Of God is 18+ because of the content of drugs, sex, guns and violence.The gender of the target audience would be mainly male because the use of violence, guns and cars and sex and nudity. 

The techniques which are used to target the audience are drugs, sex, power, crime, guns, blood, violence, strong language and also the Portuguese which is the language of the film, for people who might understand this language and get a content of the film more clearly than people who don't speak Portuguese and things that they translate on the screen might mean something different than what they said in Portuguese.

Violence 

The use of Violence in the film City Of God was when Lil'Dice kills the people at the motel people who didn't do anything bad to him, Steak is forced to kill the two defenceless boys by Lil'Ze and Benny's Death. Also when Lil'Ze rapes knockout Ned's girl, Shorty kills/ murders his wife and Steak kills the boy because of Lil'Ze. The film would not be the same or rather it would not have the same effect on the audience because violence drives the movie forward. It is more violence in City Of God than in Scarface depends to the actors doing it. Also one thing to comparision to Scarface it's kids who are doing the killing not the adults and this what make more interesting than Scarface but in Scarface you have follow the plot if not you will lose the content of the film.

Representation

 Violence is the main theme and is portrayed through the characters struggles and desperation. The City of God is portrayed through violence and sex. Women are seen as objects and are viewed in a sexual way.

Also the representation of Drugs Culture in the film, the Drug Culture in City of God is very much seen as the norm, whether it be to those who purchase drugs or who are the dealers. It is represented as a common trade in which sales are made daily as evident by Tiago and Rocket purchasing drugs in a fashion that is quickly glossed over, as if it were nothing. The scenes in City of God show the power attached to Drug Culture could include in which Rocket explains the chain command in regards to the selling of drugs, but the Benny entrance with his new image to a room of individuals in Lil' Ze's employs, all working in the manufacture of drugs and this is very important in the film because to consider that the WAR which is happening is between two gangs or to biggest lords is for further control the city and thus the drugs trade in the City of God.

Also what the last thing I want to say in the City of God represents someone from the area rather than the representation of their race. The people who lived in the Slum were the black poor people but in the town lived more white/ Brazilian people showing that they had more money. The children in the City of God are represented as violent and unruly also desperate  for power which they got by killing and stealing.