story is actually relatively simple. In order to combat the continuous breeding of urban crime, the special police combat battalion of the Gendarmerie in Rio State of Brazil used means that exceeded the authority of the police to remove criminals from their strongholds one by one, and drug dealers were either killed or fled. The original intention of BOPE is to cut off the source of corruption-when the drug dealer is not there, the authorities, parliamentarians and police will naturally have no soil to plunder.
But the wisdom of the police is infinite. They found that collecting protection fees from the common people is far more convenient, safer, and more affluent than the drug lords. So they tried every means to use BOPE to destroy more poison dens, and then the police would rule there themselves. Nascimento found that instead of eliminating corruption, he made it legal and rampant.
The left-wing Congressman Fraga has always opposed the unrestrained suppression of drug lords. At first, it was a question of political inclination to "defend human rights." He believes that if you do not start from the system, and rely solely on the fight against criminals, then "to 2081, more than 90% of Brazilians live in the prison."
Clever Rio State Governor, Secretary-General of the Security Service melon Rasi, has a huge The popular TV anchor Futuna Congressman and police captain Roca, these people have jointly built a criminal interest chain. The police who search for money provide politicians with campaign funds, and the politicians provide them with umbrellas and legal reasons-fighting against drug dealers. It is easy to accumulate money and can increase campaign capital. Nascimento, who had been in the "system" for 21 years, finally woke up and fought against the system he once "believed in." Congressman Fraga went from a left-wing intellectual who opposed criminal law and human rights above all else to a revolutionary trying to rely on the CPI to send politicians to prison by himself...
In such an environment, everything will change no matter whether it is crime or justice. ——And all change in the direction that is not good for them. There was originally a chain of biological chain system here. If you intervene in the name of justice, will justice follow? At the end of the film, the "little man" Futuna is in jail, but the governor should be re-elected; the police captain Roca was shot and killed by the man who replaced him, and the man who shot him was the police chief Fabio-the chain of interest still exists , One link is indispensable-only a few people have changed.
For this, I think it is not worthy of indignation. After choosing a certain system, you have to face all the evil consequences it brings, or gradually strive to improve the situation within a limited range. Either you simply revolutionize.
"In any case, institutionalization is the most important thing."-"Shawshank's Redemption".
From the source point of view, Brazil’s political corruption and rampant crime are not so big a fault.
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watching this movie, it will be very helpful if you can properly understand Brazil's history and political system. As the richest country in South America, Brazil's GDP ranks among the top ten in the world. In contrast, it appeared as a Portuguese colony. It has experienced an incomplete democratization system, nearly 20 years of military regime, and the re-democratization process of returning government to the people. Tens of thousands of reform measures and stabilization measures have continued to fail. Sad and dilemma, Brazil's rapid economic and social progress in less than 17 years since 1994 seems to be more worthy of attention.
Specific to the political system, the centralization of power in the presidential system and the decentralization of power in the multi-party and federal systems must be balanced; the power system of the federal and state must be balanced; the development of a free economic structure and the democratization needs of the people must be balanced ... It's easy to make a realistic movie, but it's hard to solve real problems.
No system is complete, and before a complete balance can be achieved, what should the authorities do?
I think the Brazilian government has done well enough-even if the prerequisite for development is rampant corruption. Under the most important "federalism", the loyalty of Brazilian state politicians to their state is often far greater than their loyalty to their political parties and the ideology behind them-this is in sharp contrast with the United States. In the federal legislature, Brazilian politicians must be more enthusiastic about local affairs, often only striving for projects that are beneficial to the locality, and have little interest in the party's national affairs. To a certain extent, this system itself has promoted the rapid development of Brazil's comprehensive national strength, but it has also failed to achieve the mutual checks and balances that the “decentralized power” system should have.
It is precisely this kind of system that Brazilian cinema has largely criticized. From one perspective, these Brazilian film workers grew up in an atmosphere of advocating freedom, democracy and freedom of speech (even under the rule of a military dictatorship), in order to better guarantee the system, a more stable and safe social state, and more For idealized democratic changes, directors certainly have reasons to do so.
But looking at it from another perspective, the advent of these huge “Brazilian movies” is enough to prove that Brazil’s politics is pure and democratized. It’s important to know that "Elite Force 2" was still the box office champion of Brazil’s national theaters that year, and Brazilian politicians praised it. There is a plus.
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actual situation is that since the establishment of the Brazilian Film Company in 1912, political freedom and independent discourse have become irreplaceable labels in Brazilian films, and the genes that support this huge perspective are the blood, violence, and violence in various films. Guns, drugs, corruption, repression, introspection and yoke culture.
Think carefully about the Brazilian movies you know well, such as "Painful Land", "Barren Life", "Sao Paulo Social Variations" from the 1960s; "Brazilian Princess", "A Foreign Country", and "A Four Days in September" at the end of the last century. ; After the new millennium, "The Demon", "The Invader", "Olga", and of course the more familiar "Kalandiru" and "City of God"...
Tell me, these almost cover Brazilian movies A top-level masterpiece-which one can break free from the social, political, and class stereotypes? The political disasters of the early 1990s, the half-century of economic turmoil, military dictatorship, racial discrimination, drug guns and gang warfare, perpetually corrupt and cruel parliamentarians and military police, perpetually arrogant and corrupt upper-class society, perpetually impoverished and miserable lower-class people , Social conflicts that will always exist and become more and more fierce...
But the question is, must Brazil be messier, messier, more dangerous, worse, more heinous, and more unsurvivable than other worlds? Does the same tone and content of Brazilian movies necessarily reflect the full picture of Brazil's real society?
Obviously not.
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latest 2011 Global Trust Survey Report, the Chinese government ranks first in the world with 88% trust, followed by Brazil, Japan, France, and Italy. At the same time, there is a sharp contrast between emerging economies and developed industrial countries. The American people have only 40% trust in the government.
Maybe many people will sneer at this so-called list. The obviously more free, tolerant, and equal US government has only half of our support? There is no way. Random index sampling can only satisfy "scientificity" and cannot deal with some of our divided compatriots who curse their mothers on the Internet and flatter them in front of TV cameras.
Objectively speaking, this list is still a relatively fair survey: Edelman ranks among the world's five largest public relations companies, adhering to the glorious tradition of Americans saying one thing, and having the reputation of "the world's largest independent public relations company". Moreover, the "Trust List" is published before the start of the World Economic Forum (Davos) every year, and its independent views are particularly valuable.
Regardless of the top-ranking "reason of trust" with Chinese characteristics, or the anti-skeletal mentality of "high standards and strict requirements" that Americans have developed a habit. We only look at the 85% trust of the Brazilian people in the government, and it is difficult to equate with the plot of "Elite Force 2". Since people have complete freedom of speech, and the centrifugal nature and decentralized behavior of the party system and the federal system are very obvious, then this investigation is always objective.
Another piece of business trust in the “list” is as high as 81% in Brazil and 61% in China, far exceeding the average of traditional developed countries. At the same time, there is another comparison that is particularly important. Compared with 56% of the global people’s positive trust in the business world and 61% of the positive trust in NGOs, people’s trust in the media-always plays an important role in various independent films. The trust of the messenger of justice is only 49%.
what happened? Is it completely different from the picture in the movie?
The righteous leftist congressmen, independent journalists, and a group of skeleton warriors who suddenly smashed out in the film can only be the products of the art processing production line. The fact should be that politicians, policemen, businessmen, drug lords, and killers are all in the "system"-BOPE is also impossible to avoid vulgarity. Why can this organization be upright, firm, and untainted?
In reality, BOPE in Rio State was indeed corrupted, so PMESP in São Paulo State, which has a stronger combat capability, was born, and then became corrupt again.
It is not deep enough to pinpoint the conflict point of a film that attempts to directly look at the problems of the social system. It is nothing more than a utopian metaphor.
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I think this may also be a more obvious feature of global ideological change after the twenty-first century has entered the second decade. In Western countries, the way to fight for democracy is no longer just demonstrations, gatherings, struggles and revolutions. A more moderate and effective way is increasingly recognized. To a certain extent, this is also the censorship of literature and film in most Western countries. One of the reasons why the system is so tolerant.
Therefore, the value of "Elite Force 2", an outstanding movie, cannot be directly proportional to the shock and touch of most viewers. People seem to have begun to accept that on the one hand we must survive from guns, drugs, violence, corruption and killings, but on the other hand-if you only pursue a free soul and a simple life without worry-those who are corrupt Politicians and drug lords who kill people without blinking will basically not come to your door.
What is the fact?
The fact is that in any country, "censorship" does not necessarily despise human rights more than "absolute freedom of speech"; "stability" may not necessarily be a word worth criticizing. Countries that talk about "human rights" at all times have a background in the underworld, and anarchists who remain committed to "human rights" are not worthy of sympathy.
The vote is more important than everything-although it has been repeatedly ridiculed by countless literary works, movies and various dramas-this is indeed a true and correct truth.
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If this film has practical significance to us, I think it should be a multiple-choice question. Under the premise that the political system cannot be changed for the time being, if the multi-party federation brings fairness, justice, open democracy, freedom of the soul, but the proliferation of drugs, guns, and crimes. Human rights are one-sided, but social security, efficiency, and quality of life are rapidly increasing. Which one do you choose?
No matter which one you choose deep in your heart, it's all right. But it is better not to protect your precious crotch first, and then attack everything under the banner of democracy and freedom. This is a little angry youth.
Sadly, in the vast territory of .CN, such "little crotch crotch" is everywhere.
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Here is another digression. I found that most people in China, including those with higher education, do not have clear political opinions. They like a large group of right-wingers in "Boston Law", Alan or Danny; at the same time, they also have a soft spot for all the leftists who seem to love each other and are gentle and affectionate, such as the large number of "Brazilian movies I am discussing. "For example, Cobain's music and Xiao Hong's novels-but the biggest problem is that they are not actually centrists themselves. They don’t understand politics, beliefs, freedom, or even basic sociological knowledge, but they prefer to discuss politics, as long as they have the opportunity to participate in politics.
Nowadays, everyone is scolding the government and officials on the Internet to scold the system. In fact, people in other countries are also scolding. But the curse is to obtain a more specific form of democracy, and we curse purely for personal venting. Mr. Lu Xun has mentioned the "ethnic inferiority" several times, and I think that if there is such a thing as "inferiority" nowadays, this is not the case.
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