Buscape The Movie

I suppose before watching this movie, people imagine religious themes from the title. Therefore, I was astonished by the content because the movie illustrated the poverty of the slums of Brazil, and the life of the people there. As a whole, this movie has abusive assault and thriller scenes. The story is about a feud in which gangs of the opposing parties murder each other to gain authority of the city called “City of God”, and it is told through the perspective of one of the main characters, Buscape, who has a dream of becoming a photographer in the future. His story shows the violence and corruption of the city and the ups and downs of the life of Li’l Ze, one of the most vicious bosses of the city. As conflict occurs in the alleys, Buscape

Additionally, I assume that city of god is the symbol of poverty, violence, and lack of education in the lawless area of Brazil. It is the fact that kids who are not educated well grow with viscous mind, and they try to sell drug to make money in the film. Since illegal drugs give people addiction, and it makes a lot of money, it prevails easily in outlaw areas. Le Corbusier who is a city planner deplores and shows the conditions of slums and the people they had created in the article, “The High-Modernist City an Experiment and a Critique” by James C. Scott. Corbusier insists that slums are noisy, violence and disease- ridden (116 Scott). He also states that “they harbored a potential revolutionary menace to the authorities.” (116 Scott). As Corbusier signals, slums are very dangerous because it can have a menace for the government as well as worse security; therefore, I believe that Brazilian government should work on the social problems of poverty, and it also has to focus on the education not make slums more, and these efforts help to be

In addition, the social structure and status are based on the gangs; therefore, the security of the city is horrible in this movie. One interesting point that I wondered about this movie is the illegal transactions between gangs and police. Li’l Ze who is a notorious boss of the city paid money to police as a bribe to be released when he is apprehended by them. I was astonished by this scene because even police were cooperating with crime in the lawless city. According to the article “Security, territory and population” by Michel Faucalt, “Security will rely on a number of material givens. It will, of course, work on site with the flows of water, islands, air, and so forth.” ( 19, Faucalt). As Faucalt shows, the poverty of place could be the sequence of the security situation of that place; therefore, Brazilian government need to improve public sanitation and poverty to maintain public security in the first place. Faucalt also suggests that the plan is very important for constructing the disciplinary city, and we cannot get rid of all problems when make a plan because some of them could be change good in particular situation in the future. ( 19, Faucalt) She also believe focusing on these ideas are essential for the mechanism of security ( 19, Faucalt). Her ideas are significant in order to