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Extract:
The reputation gained by 'City of God' was for much part that of a film that reveals the true facts about poverty in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and the endemic nature of the violence that accompanies it. Given the publicity it received, the nature of some of the rave reviews and the stated intention of the film-makers it can be studied as a political film with a message. At the same time it relies heavily on the artificiality of cinematic techniques and a complex narrative structure, not the realist style formerly associated with films about social deprivation. As such it enters into the debate around the form that a film’s messages should take, and whether such films should contain suggestions as to the possible origin and remedy of the social inequality they represent. It also becomes part of an enquiry very pertinent to much media product in the 21st century, about the nature of film-making and responsibility of the film-maker. The response of the audience in the developed world raises the question as to whether the violence and poverty of the underdeveloped and exploited world can be used as ‘aesthetic objects’.
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