City of God
How is decline and deterioration shown in the film through the mise-en-scene? In the opening part of City Of God shows the decline in society very well as it switches from the 80s to the 60s where the slums go from the dark and dangerous to the bright and happy which shows the contrast of how the slums have developed over time. The mise-en-scene used in the opening sequences helps to portray the generational decline in society in the way that the sign of the City Of God starts of bright and clear and turns to dark and dirty which portrays a metaphor for how the society declines as generations change within the City Of God. Also the slow gradual decline of the society in shown in the film and this is shown more through the criminals of the film and how they change each generation. At first we have the tender trio who are doing criminal activity for the use of the community and are trying to help everyone out to then changing to the criminal activity of Lil Ze. Where Lil Ze is a crimin...