NARRATIVE KEY MOMENTS IN

CITY OF GOD

IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE SEEN

IN THE FILM

The Chicken

The Sixties

The Tender Trio

Motel

Goose leaves slum

Shorty buries his wife

The Seventies

The Story of the Apartment

Li'l Dice grows up

Becomes "Li'lZé" the coke dealer

Benny as Ze’s opposite

The Runts

Li'lZé earning respect through fear

Rocket broke and working in supermarket

Benny and Angelina

Flirting with Crime

Benny’s party/death

Rape of Knockout Ned’s girlfriend

Shootout at Ned’s house

The Story of Knockout Ned

Joins Carrot’s gang

Bank robberies

Gang warfare in the favelas

Rocket hangs out at the paper

Young children join the gangs

“No one could remember how it began”

Media take an interest in the war

Rocket photographs Ze’s gang

Rocket is given a job

Ned escapes from hospital

Ze invests in munitions

“Get that chicken”

Shootout/chaos/Rocket photographs it all

Otto avenges his father’s death

Zé is shaken down for money, humiliated, and finally

released

Runts surround Zé and murder him

Rocket takes pictures of Zé's dead body and goes to the

newspaper

Decides whether or not to put the pictures of the cops in

paper

Runts walk through City of God, making a hit list of the

dealers