City of God

Ok so this is a film i have been meaning to see for a while but i was finally forced to sit down and watch it as its part of my Film course.

It was worth the wait.

Have you ever seen a film that completely consumes you? When it finally comes to an end you feel like your coming up for air because that film has literally been everything in your life for those 90 something minutes? This is a film that does that. It can hook you like that. It got to the stage where when we were re-watching certain scenes I would let the film play out way longer than that allotted scene, even though i now knew what happened, simply because the film is so consuming.

It positioned me in that city. I felt as if i suddenly understood what it's like to live there. I could relate to these people who previously i had nothing in common with. That's pretty fucking amazing. That writer/director forced an audience form the other side of the world, in complete polar circumstances, to at least get an inkling of what it's like in the city, to -on however small a level- feel a connection with these characters, a commonality.

In a sentence: All-consuming.