Originally posted by Starkey
It´s not just like the plot says "two kids, one becomes evil, the other becomes a good guy", it´s about watching kids being sucked helplessly into a world of violence, about truly understanding what the lives of very poor people ruled by criminals is like.
The trailer also doesn´t help much, they spend half of it describing how good the reviews about this movie are.
Go watch the movie (City of God, not that stupid Xuxa movie) then come back here to rephrase your sentence.