City of God

The use of closer in the film is shown firstly with the use of the trapped chickens, representing to people in the favelas as they are trapped and cannot get out of the cage.  The cage being the life style they have, gangs, and not being able to get out of it.  This is shot with a hand held camera which creates a documentary style to it which can make it look real life   The one chicken that does get out represents Rocket, who manages to reject crime as a way of life and uses it to get further in his career and does not get sucked into the life of crime.  The chicken manages to get lose and run away eventually being able to escape and does not get caught.  This is the same as Rocket has lived around crime and could not even get into the life of crime.  As he failed to pull out a gun on someone showing he was never going to be able to get into that lifestyle.
 Towards the end his knowledge of the favelas and access to the gangs allows him to further his career due to this as he is able to get money from pictures he takes of the gang.  Without his knowledge and background he would not of been able to get these pictures which allowed him to escape.

Mise en scene is used when steak and fries is first asked out by Lil'ze and they are shown through metal bars representing them being trapped and caged up just like the chickens being trapped.  Because of Steak and fries' first choice this traps him into the gang.  His choice traps him in the gang and he cannot get out of it which shows that if you make the wrong choice then there may not be an option after that which results in them being trapped.  This then carries on just shortly after when Steak has been told to shoot one of the runts.  This is a kill or be killed basis and if he did not kill the runt then he would of been killed.   In the scene the gun is shown in the middle of the two so it shows it is the centre of attention and important in the scene.  When in Lil'ze's point of view the angle is high as he is more powerful than the runts and when in the runts point, they are low angles which shows they are looking up to Lil'ze and he has the power.  Here a choice does not matter as a choice given to the runts does not mean anything.  Lil'ze does the opposite to what the runt says when asked whether he wants to be shot in the hand or foot.
The runts are shown sitting in a pig sty which shows animalistic characteristics as they are treated like cattle and sitting in dirt.