The City of God

The film takes plac in Rio de Janeiro, in the poor streets of the City of God. In this film, the most of the kids grow up to be in gangs. Throughout the movie kids at such a young age start to use drugs and even start to kill, just to be part of the gangs and be cool. Some of the kids would go and shoplift from stores and leave the owners with nothing. Lil Ze was one of the big drug dealers and gang members,everyone did what he said, in a way he kept peace within the town. Until one day his best friend benny became a playboy as he called himself, and Lil Ze was fed up with him being to nice and getting all the girls, so he killed him and started a war between the good looking and the ugly. The situation got so out of hand, specially when he shot up a house and killed many innocent people. The person he had a problem with became a hoodlum, and teamed up with a gang to get him back, and he was shot and caught by the cops. He was featured on tv and the newspaper, when Lil Ze saw he called Rocket an aspiring photographer who he did not know worked for the newspaper, and told him to take pictures of him, and were accidentally published and thought he would be killed but was not. He brought the attention to his town of what was going on and saved it.

This film relates to the other Wes's life, as the kids are following the example that they see. Just like wes did when he was younger, following Tony's footsteps. In a way they are different as most of the young children end up dead, but Wes ends up in jail.