The brilliant craft of screenwriting in the 2002 Brazilian film City of God, written by Bráulio Mantovani: complicated characters with stifling dilemmas, sky-high stakes that almost always involve death, and a ruthlessly efficient opening scene that lays out the whole story ahead.

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