«Democracy and its Brown Areas

Day 21 City of God Study Questions

1. Think about the "brown areas" article, as you watch the movie. Does what you see resemble some of the descriptions in that article?
   
   As the state withdraws, something else comes in to take its place. What is it?
2. How effective is the state's law? Is there an alternative "order" that is being enforced?
1. Who enforces that order? How is it enforced?
2. What are the means of succeeding to power in that context?
3. What is the role of the drug dealers?
4. What is the role of the press?
1. When did the police become involved?
2. Why?
5. What is the role of the police?
1. How do they contribute to the problem
2. How do they control the problem?
3. How effective are civil liberties in that context?
6. What is the reaction by the ordinary people living in the City of God, when someone takes the law into his own hands?