How is the chicken used as a metaphore in the opening scene of city of god?

As the opening squence of ' cite of god' starts, we can qucikly identify that the genre as  action. this is signified by the exterem close up shot, of the knife being sharpend against a rock. This shows us that there would be some form of danger.The audience is then confused by what is happening bcause of the black outs between the shot. We then see a unknown man taking a photo, an close up shot, which changes into a wide shot, and the words 'cildade de dues' which basically means 'city of god' of brazilan as this is an brazilan movie. When the title appears, the viewers can tell the movie has just started.

We can see a range of shots taken while music playing in the backround. close up of the same shot, of the knife being sharpend against the role, then the camera showing us the chickens, then peeling carrots. This tell us that there is a alot of violence in this movie, as the knifes denote this. It also shows us danger. The camera goes back and forth between these scene, there is a close up shot then added, of a chickens head being sliced, this signifiys that there it death within the movie. This is shown by making the chickens a metaphore and showing its death.We see the string on the chickens leg, when he escapes.This can be a metaphore of the boy in the movie, as he runs away aways from someone.

While everyone chasing after the chicken, with weapons in their hands, such as; guns. we can see that they want to kill the chicken, this again denotes a person, as the scene looks similar to when people run after a person to kill them. The camera then cuts to a meduim continual low shot, when the chicken is running away, the audience feels as if they are running with the chicken, as the camrea is hand help, and at the same level as the chicken.This is to make the audince more involved.There comes a point where everyone stops and both the chicken and the boy are in the same postion.Trapped, between the people chasing the chicken and the police.It leads us back to the beginning where the chickens leg is tired up,its trapped from the free living, the camra around the boys neck may also be a interpretation of that.The metaphore very clear, as both chicken and boy is running away from someone, and both are in the same stiutation at the same time.
‘a picture could change my life,’. The viewer is forced to think what picture. The props used ' the camera around the boys neck' shows us the link between what is said and what is being shown.The props used are relevent to what the movie is about, most of the time it denotes a certain thing.

We can tell though this whole opening scene about who the audience might be for this movie, we can tell the movie is not made for children, because it contains a lot of strong language and violence.