Philippe Lacôte
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What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: It directly references Fernando Mereilles’ classic City of God .
The magical escapism tends to rob any real sense of grittiness, which lends to its mystique, at least in comparison to other prison dramas focused on actual institutions, such as Hector Babenco’s Carandiru (2003), for instance.