City of god was directed by Cicade De Deus and was made in the year of 2002. The film covers the story of a boy who who grown up in the favellas of Rio, specifically the fevella called the city of god. This involves the genre of social realism, thriller and action. It has a circular narrative with it starting with one of the protagonists walking  into a street encountering Lil' Ze's gang and the police. The Film then takes us back through time to the first protagonist we met (Rocket) but when he was younger, by the camera moving around Rocket in a circle. This circular movement with the camera mirrors the film's circle narrative. Within the film there are many seamless transitions such as when Shaggy dies and Rocket walks away  and the truck passes to reveal rocket and his friend in future standing in the same place where the truck had once passed him and the story to how Carrot became the owner to one of his drug houses. The reason to why the transitions are so seamless is because there our no jump cuts and sound is placed neatly over them so that it diverts the attention from the picture cutting. The edits are also covered with story telling by Rocket. He gives ample exposition and enables the audience to be fully engaged in the piece of film. This is the reason to why the edits between chapters of the film are so flawless and beautiful. The voice over from Rocket, The sound of the cut and the lack of jump cuts. 

This film creates the themes of conflict, power and poverty. It creates poverty very simply by using the mes en scene on all the characters and places. All character's clothing are very tattered  and would be commonly associated with poor lower class. The building, streets, shops, houses and everything around the characters is dilapidated emphasizing the poverty stricken environment this film is set in. Conflict is an on going theme in the film. From the beginning we have the chicken causing Lil' Ze's gang to cause chaos in the streets, Lil' Ze wanting the football, the tender trio robbing the truck and so on. The conflict is copious and doesn't even cease at the end with the kids (The Runts) shooting Lil'Ze and walking away playfully. Maybe the director was trying to display a metaphor that conflict is ever lasting and that there'll never be a world with out conflict. Reading deeper into this maybe that even if we think there is harmony within the favella, there's not because someone always wants more. It's in human nature to want more and with the poverty impoverished environment this is increased thus leading to gangs, thievery, drugs and crime. Power rests in the hand's of someone who can manipulate the vulnerable and poor to there own bidding. These hand's belong to Lil' Ze. He uses his inhuman emotions or absence of emotions to kill thus leading to using scaremongering tactics to instruct people. These people have little power and wealth consequently having little security to their lives therefore they have to leave their security in the hands of someone who does have power and wealth and that someone happens to be Lil' Ze. This vast amount of power Lil' Ze obtains ergo drives other gangs and/or individuals to conflict with Lil' Ze. The three themes link seamlessly which is very much like the micro features do in the film. 

The story and the micro features both complement each other in a smooth and an unwrinkled fashion. It was very successful with conveying its themes through the linkages between them. The micro features allowed  the film in a very fundamental method to present the messages.