2002 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. José Padilha · Brazil · Portuguese, pt
Reality transcends fiction
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
"A tense documentary with multiple layers of meaning."
— Deborah Young
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"Building an indictment of the media, the police, and the provincial governor for placing self-interest above saving lives, Bus 174 opens out from the people directly involved in the incident to an examination of institutionalized poverty."
— Amy Taubin