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In the film City of God, how excessive is the violence; and how is this shown as a "way out" or escape? The critically acclaimed City of God creates various questions to the audience, most prevalently whether violence is represented as a way out of the "Favela," (city slums of Rio de Janeiro where the narrative takes place) and whether these representations that induce us to this question are excessively violent. In this movie there are also other underlying themes, such as the issue of violence breeding violence, and the representation of the Favela as an inescapable environment. The theme of violence becomes apparent to the audience from the outset of the film, director "Meirelles opens with a stark image, a close-up of a knife sharpened on a whetting stone, and for the rest of the film, pretty much keeps us on that knife's edge."1 This description illustrates to us...

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