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CITY OF GOD - CONTEXT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - People from the countryside who immigrated to the city for a better life later joined the people of the favela, and they grew in massive quantities where 23% of Brazil's population lives in one (around 1.4m people). These favelas had little to no government control, were tightly packed into small square miles, lack basic resources and crime and violence ran wild
      - Because of Rio's geography, favelas are usually situated right next to luxurious and popular tourist areas in the city
      - Violence and machismo is the norm in favelas, as domestic abuse rates are substantially higher than the rest of the city, and men constantly joining gangs as they see guns as a source of power and identity
  - - - Chaos, suppression and untrustworthy authority figures ran amok when the film was set
  - - - The president of Brazil at the time, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, told Meirelles that the film changed his policies on public security
- - - - Has the largest domestic (US) audience for Brazil in the year of it's release (2002)