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 criminal who just does criminal activity for himself and his representation, He has the thrust for blood which is shown in the film when he kills people for no reason because he is a person who just wants to show off and build a figure that people are scared of.

Lil Ze montage

 In the montage of Lil Ze up bringing, We see the development of Lil Dice becoming Lil Ze and how he gains enjoyment for killing at a young age and how it becomes more of a hobby rather then business. The visual representation of Lil Dice laugh when he murders all the people in the hotel shows how Lil Dice is thirty for blood and wants to murder people and also shows him as a psycho. Also the placement of the cameras when Lil Ze kills someone is important because the camera is below Lil Ze which represents the power of him and shows that he is above everyone and wants all of power of the City Of God. The scene of Lil Dice changing his name to Lil Ze is shown as a ritual and represents him selling his soul to the devil because the man says "god has forgotten about you" which implies that all the good has left him and that he is evil and is a representation of the devil in the City Of God.    

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