City of God

It was about life in one of the favelas (i.e. the slums) around Rio de Janero. Well, apparently the depiction wasn't too far from the truth, and by and large, not much has changed. As can be seen from this guy's report from Rio recently.

Well, all hell continues to break out. There's been a prison riot which culminated with a drug kingpin orchestrating violence throughout Rio and all over the city, which led to the deaths of over 200 cops. And the violence ended by the city surrendering to the aforementioned drug kingpin.

Bad news. Well, the World Cup is around the corner, so hopefully the nation of Brazil will calm down a bit, you know, until the Azzuri (i.e. Italian national team) knock them out of contention in the quarterfinals.