Um campo de concentração brasileiro : marcas enunciativas do mal-estar e da violência nas instâncias formal e diegética de Cidade de Deus

Abstract

The violence is one of the most remarkable aspects about contemporary brazilian cinema. Cidade de Deus (City of God) is, in this universe of violence and of violent discourses, one of the most uncomfortable national movies of nowadays, not only because it tell us about a world of criminality, poverty and exclusion, but because it shows real stories. If they are not real in the strict sense, of the facts that really happened; they're real because they happen all

the time in big cities of this country. This investigation points to, already on a first moment,two types of enunciation in City of God, permeated by violence and by the otherness representation: the advertising aesthetics and the documentary discourse. The research presented here is the result of a work that intended to bring a ray of understanding concerning to how this film is constructed in order to discontents us; how could the diegesis and the form

of this film, articulated, provoke the sensation of uneasiness (discontent) that hovers over the