The article analyzes three recent movies from Brazilian popular cinema in which the "voice over" plays an important role: Cidade de Deus, O homem que copiava and Redentor. The voice as a discourse of the subject "in situation" is seen against the framework of the social context, characterized by tensions related to violence, growth of illegal markets, business crime; hegemony of consumption and crisis of the family.
Brazilian cinema; Cidade de Deus; O homem que copiava; Redentor