i am surprised with the questions and issues this documentary has brought up in the reviews here and specially because theyre indeed interesting questions. surely and the ones who could best address it would be the makers of the film themselves. nevertheless and i think i can shed some light upon something that i think has been overlooked and which is and in my opinion and the purpose of the film and what it is about and what it trying to convey. what its message after all. at the risk of pointing out the very obvious and i will start saying the filmmakers have an intention. theyre trying to tell a story and extract meaning out of it and get a point across. with this in mind and we can shoot down many of the criticized points and particularly the ones involving what people expected in contrast with what the filmmakers were really trying to show. causes and consequences of violence. the film is not about that. it not enlightening non brazilian audiences about the brazilian favelas issue. well and who wanted to do that. is afroreggae this or that and supported by whom. it doesn not matter in this context. not enough women in the film for your tastes. it not about equality or the feminist cause. every little detail about anderson life and mother and son and family and all the aspects and the workings of the afroreggae movement. well and do not be so picky because it doesn not matter. there just so much length a story can have before it can not become a film anymore. if the authors were to show everything everyone is expecting and they would have to make a 6 months tv series instead. if you are expecting all that and you approach the film the wrong way. the film is actually about two individuals who started a movement. two individuals full of ideals. two individuals who thirst for change. two individuals trying to do something about all the wrongdoing going around them. individuals who went rock bottom and wanted to get up again. it all about finding purpose in life and drawing inspiration from misery and changing the destiny and becoming something else than what they were destined to be  criminals and drug dealers for that matter. it about achievement and hope and not about the cruel reality of violence in rio de janeiro and though it an integral part of the film given that what the characters are constantly surrounded by. unexpectedly and not without a reason and the film ends up centered much more on anderson course through difficulties in life. this is because they were faced with anderson accident while they were shooting the film. i am not sure about this and but they may have even seriously considered ending the filming right there and leaving behind all effort spent. but anderson wanted to keep going. and so they did and risking to lose in having a film with a bit of an identity crisis and considering the sudden change of course and but gaining in showing someone overcoming such a devastating happening. it very evident for who watches it that the film begins about afroreggae and winds up about anderson. it very unique in this sense (the shift of the story line). maybe their only sin is not making it evident upfront and which may initially rise expectations that will go unfulfilled. as for the importance or ordinariness of anderson and i would say not everybody wants to change the whole world and end all violence and feed all the hungry and be like mahatma ghandi and be as known as mother teresa or whoever other known personalities there are. it much easier to relate to and draw inspiration from someone who is and such as everybody else in fact and trying to transform his or her own harsh life and raising problematic kids and coping with permanent injuries or diseases and even managing to pay the bills by the end of the month. to understand the movie you have to see that about leaving behind a past of involvement with drugs and crime and making up for it and and trying to persuade others not to go down the same troublesome path. though you can criticize if the way they chose to do it is effective and doubt the ideology of the method and you cannot deny their intentions. also and the perception that anderson is special or a chosen one may have partially something to do with the fact that the filmmakers became very involved in the lives of the characters they were depicting. as much as becoming friends with them. there no way it do not tint the whole movie with a more favorable light over anderson. if a dear friend becomes paralyzed in an accident and it not just a fact and you make a big deal out of it. and this is not necessarily bad. it not much that they treat him like a chosen one as much as they go to great lengths trying to show him as a seed for transformation and source of inspiration. in conclusion and do not watch this documentary for the scenes of the reality of poverty and crime it contains and watch it for what it is much more and an inspirational story. nike ad like. seems just damn good and professionally made to me and doesn not affect or detract from the intentions of the film. romanticized. speculate on its credential as a documentary if you will and but why not when it supposed to cause reaction and inspire. isn not trying to better people lives through music and dance  the essence of what the subjects are trying to do  romanticizing the very own reality. pardon me and but showing just the plain facts is what reporters do and you can watch it on tv every night. if i wanted to become a filmmaker and i wish my first film would also be this great. 
i am surprised with the questions and issues this documentary has brought up in the reviews here and specially because theyre indeed interesting questions. surely and the ones who could best address it would be the makers of the film themselves. nevertheless and i think i can shed some light upon something that i think has been overlooked and which is and in my opinion and the purpose of the film and what it is about and what it trying to convey. what its message after all. at the risk of pointing out the very obvious and i will start saying the filmmakers have an intention. theyre trying to tell a story and extract meaning out of it and get a point across. with this in mind and we can shoot down many of the criticized points and particularly the ones involving what people expected in contrast with what the filmmakers were really trying to show. causes and consequences of violence. the film is not about that. it not enlightening non brazilian audiences about the brazilian favelas issue. well and who wanted to do that. is afroreggae this or that and supported by whom. it doesn not matter in this context. not enough women in the film for your tastes. it not about equality or the feminist cause. every little detail about anderson life and mother and son and family and all the aspects and the workings of the afroreggae movement. well and do not be so picky because it doesn not matter. there just so much length a story can have before it can not become a film anymore. if the authors were to show everything everyone is expecting and they would have to make a 6 months tv series instead. if you are expecting all that and you approach the film the wrong way. the film is actually about two individuals who started a movement. two individuals full of ideals. two individuals who thirst for change. two individuals trying to do something about all the wrongdoing going around them. individuals who went rock bottom and wanted to get up again. it all about finding purpose in life and drawing inspiration from misery and changing the destiny and becoming something else than what they were destined to be  criminals and drug dealers for that matter. it about achievement and hope and not about the cruel reality of violence in rio de janeiro and though it an integral part of the film given that what the characters are constantly surrounded by. unexpectedly and not without a reason and the film ends up centered much more on anderson course through difficulties in life. this is because they were faced with anderson accident while they were shooting the film. i am not sure about this and but they may have even seriously considered ending the filming right there and leaving behind all effort spent. but anderson wanted to keep going. and so they did and risking to lose in having a film with a bit of an identity crisis and considering the sudden change of course and but gaining in showing someone overcoming such a devastating happening. it very evident for who watches it that the film begins about afroreggae and winds up about anderson. it very unique in this sense (the shift of the story line). maybe their only sin is not making it evident upfront and which may initially rise expectations that will go unfulfilled. as for the importance or ordinariness of anderson and i would say not everybody wants to change the whole world and end all violence and feed all the hungry and be like mahatma ghandi and be as known as mother teresa or whoever other known personalities there are. it much easier to relate to and draw inspiration from someone who is and such as everybody else in fact and trying to transform his or her own harsh life and raising problematic kids and coping with permanent injuries or diseases and even managing to pay the bills by the end of the month. to understand the movie you have to see that about leaving behind a past of involvement with drugs and crime and making up for it and and trying to persuade others not to go down the same troublesome path. though you can criticize if the way they chose to do it is effective and doubt the ideology of the method and you cannot deny their intentions. also and the perception that anderson is special or a chosen one may have partially something to do with the fact that the filmmakers became very involved in the lives of the characters they were depicting. as much as becoming friends with them. there no way it do not tint the whole movie with a more favorable light over anderson. if a dear friend becomes paralyzed in an accident and it not just a fact and you make a big deal out of it. and this is not necessarily bad. it not much that they treat him like a chosen one as much as they go to great lengths trying to show him as a seed for transformation and source of inspiration. in conclusion and do not watch this documentary for the scenes of the reality of poverty and crime it contains and watch it for what it is much more and an inspirational story. nike ad like. seems just damn good and professionally made to me and doesn not affect or detract from the intentions of the film. romanticized. speculate on its credential as a documentary if you will and but why not when it supposed to cause reaction and inspire. isn not trying to better people lives through music and dance  the essence of what the subjects are trying to do  romanticizing the very own reality. pardon me and but showing just the plain facts is what reporters do and you can watch it on tv every night. if i wanted to become a filmmaker and i wish my first film would also be this great. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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