Problematizing Post-Colonial Privilege in “City of God” Serial Binger Serial Binger · Follow
<p>City of God” poses an interesting question: how has this post-colonially prejudiced film earned its place at the top of “best movies of all time” charts? The movie’s attempt at realism ironically ends up trivializes one of the most often ignored tragedies of Brazil: the drug trade. The drug wars that kill thousands of innocents in Rio every day are portrayed a mere byproduct of a personal skirmish between Li’l Dice and Knockout Ned, at best caused by the larger power struggle between the ambitious sociopath Li’l Dice and small-time criminal Carrot for the control over the drug trade in the City of God. Such portrayal is not merely outright absurd, but also caustically offensive because it perpetuates the flawed understanding that drug violence in Brazil is a product of uneducated and de facto “inferior barbaric savages”. At best, by naming the weapons dealer that supplies the guns to both sides of the drug war “Uncle Sam”, </p>
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