ABSTRACT
The film City of God (2002) opens amid a carnivalesque atmosphere, samba music is playing, the camera cuts from image to image, knives are being sharpened, chickens slaughtered and grilled, huge amounts of hash and cocaine consumed … but then, all of a sudden, one chicken manages to escape the ‘party’. The whole gang now frantically chases after the desperate runaway chicken, turning the chase itself into an instance of perverse enjoyment. Will the chicken manage to escape being slaughtered?
