>First. Please do NOT put spoilers in a post without warning
>people. Good christ, how often should we say this?
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>Second.
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>SPOILERS FOLLOW ----
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>Are you sure he killed that girl?
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>I think if you watch it again you'll find that it wasn't
>him.

Exactly. The trigger happy cop tried 2 shoot Sandro & ended up shooting the girl Geisa 1st. The other 3 shots came from Sandro but he was being wrestled 2 the ground @ the time & the 1st shot from the cop is probably what killed her & not the 3 afterwards

>Third, the point of the film is not that he is without
>responsibility or blame. The point of the film is that
>there are no easy answers and that there are ills throughout
>society that are in need of correction.

City of God was a great film but Bus 174 touched more upon the cops role in Brazil which is obviously in need of some serious attention. They werent prepared @ all to deal w/ this situation & in fact one can argue that they actually provoked it. Deep, deep documentary.