After some ineffective negotiating with the police both Sandro and a passenger on board of the bus get killed. The main concept of the movie revolves around the unjust system; the blind Brazilian authorities that single-handedly create criminals by neglecting and aggressing most of the poor people instead of creating ways of improving their lives.

Favela Rising" is yet another motion picture intended to expose the truth concerning the Latin-American slums. The action again takes place in Rio de Janeiro, but the intriguing part about the film is that it is a documentary which tells the story of Anderson Sa, a former drug dealer from the Vigario Geral district.

Anderson had been living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro when he heard that his brother has been accidentally shot in the middle of a gang war. Just as the characters in the previous movies and in Carolina's book, Anderson was determined to get away from the atrocities happening in his neighborhood. Being a wonderful singer,...

However, before becoming a singer, Anderson had to comply with his condition and had turned into a drug dealer. Fortunately, he had changed his life of crime into an honest life before it was too late.
Carolina, Rocket, Sandro, and Anderson are either real life characters or inventions of writers and film makers. The impressive thing about all of them is that they all attempted to improve the world, and while some failed, others succeeded. But the best thing is that their stories have been passed on, and, with them, people have learned about what was going on in the favelas in Latin-America.

Works Cited

De Jesus, Carolina Maria, and St. Clair David. Child of the Dark. Signet Classic, 2003.

Bus 174. Dir. Jose Padilha. 2002.

City of God. Dir. Fernando Meirelles. Miramax, Buena Vista International. 2002.

Favela Rising. Dir. Matt Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist. HBO/Cinemax. 2005.