Young men from ethnic minorities are the main social group represented in both films. In City of God, we follow Rocket as a young boy but we also see a group of younger kids when Rocket is grown up called “The Runts”, who indulge themselves in crime due to the poverty surrounding them. In Tsotsi, the main characters are also teenagers which shows the audience that living in poverty and being surrounded by conflict ultimately influences young children to get involved in crime at a young age because the only people in that environment who have money and own a tiny percent of wealth are drug dealers and criminals. In a scene in City of God, Lil Ze, confronts “The Runts” and hands a gun to one of the children and orders him to kill one of the others after he had already shot them both in the foot. This shows the audience that the young characeters are getting involved in crime and getting hurt. The scene in City of God shocks the western audience as a man handing a gun to a child seems so abnormal and reinforces the conflict and disorientation of decency in the favelas and environment of Rio De Janerio.