7 Prisoners (2021)
Directed by Alexandre Moratto
An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
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What critics compared 7 Prisoners to
It seems wearily inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between 7 Prisoners , the newest drama from rising star Alexandre Moratto, and City of God , perhaps the defining film of 21st century Brazilian cinema (that multi-award-winning drama’s director, Fernando Meirelles, is on producing duties here, alongside Ramin Bahrani of The White Tiger fame.)
Produced by renowned Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, known for his iconic, Rio-set film City of God and whose latest film The Two Popes was also on Netflix.
As far as texture goes and ambition goes, this isn’t “City of God” and Moratto isn’t Fernando Meirelles.
Two of the producers, Ramin Bahrani and Fernando Meirelles, have made a fair number of these films, including “99 Homes,” “The White Tiger” and “City of God” between them.
Filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, director of “City of God,” is a producer here, and “7 Prisoners” shares that Oscar-nominated gangster drama’s cinéma vérité sensibility.
Like White Tiger , another foreign-language exploration of class released on Netflix earlier this year, 7 Prisoners was produced by Ramin Bahrani (along with City of God director Fernando Meirelles and others) and finds a tidy metaphor for capitalism in miniature.
White Tiger and, to an even greater extent, Parasite and Sorry To Bother You used artifice and the fantastic to craft endings that were symbolic and true to the material, but also cathartic and edifying.