From white to black

Shannon 2022-04-24 06:01:01

"Elite Force 2: The Enemy Now" is a work that will make the audience in the dark feel faintly desperate after watching it.



This despair may come from the impact of two forces. On the one hand, it is the theme and content of the film. Although it takes place in faraway Latin America, it is impossible not to put oneself in contact with the many in reality. The presence of corruption in various places in Rio, Brazil, is at least reminiscent of the years before the establishment of the "Independent Commission Against Corruption" often shot in Laogang movies. The far away is like "Lei Luo Biography", a heroic movie, and the near like Wang Jing's "Money Empire". However, the vision and ambition of the script of this film are obviously greater. Thinking and exploring the mutual transformation of black and white society, if you think about it, it may only be comparable to Du Qifeng's "Harmony".



On the other hand, it is the overall quality of this film that will make the Chinese commercial film, which is constantly increasing in investment and propaganda, and appear to be "prosperous", revealing the most embarrassing aspect of the flower cluster: powerlessness. Yes, there are often movies that play such roles. If it is a "blockbuster" like "Avatar" and "Inception" under the Hollywood system with mature industrial spectacles, you can also complain about the incomparable scale. But other works such as "Elite Troops" with small and medium investment scale, solid scripts, excellent performances, and clean images, audiovisual works that truly shake the soul, in fact, in all aspects of hardware, there is no special advantage compared to the current Chinese movies. . Of course, we can complain that the approval and non-grading system hinders the development of many topics, but perhaps in the final analysis we have lost the mentality of taking every detail well.



The photography of "Elite Troops" is mostly hand-cranked and follow-up, highlighting a certain sense of presence and even style. Many scenes are arranged and scheduled, which is completely different from the format of "medium shots close to close shots, panoramic shots in front and back" in "TV Drama Vision". Because the character is often in agitated mood, the shaking of the camera will increase the agitation, but it does not mean that the camera will be shaking. After the Lasio Prison riot, Fraga, a human rights fighter, roared at the camera and attacked the government. The camera quietly shifted the focus from his face to the satellite launch pad of the broadcasting vehicle behind, and then slowly shook it down. The subtext in the picture speaks for itself. At least this is the tone of the movie.



If you haven't watched the previous work, watching this "Elite Force 2" will not have too many plot obstacles, and you don't need to make up for it. The first part is purely gathering and training troops to combat drug dealers in the slums, and the second part is aimed at the invisible but ubiquitous "system". The main line of the whole story is almost the best footnote of Wu Si's "The Law of Blood Remuneration", which mentioned in the book "In order to maximize the long-term blood reward, the bandits are willing to establish an order to protect the looted objects. And in order to pursue short-term blood reward income. The maximization of the law, legal violent groups can also degenerate into bandits.” The law is presented in detail.



Although everyone played very eye-catching, but the actor Wagner Mara still firmly locked the aura of the movie around him. Nascimento, who took off his military uniform and put on a suit, his back became more and more hunched, and his eyes were getting dim. He always tilted his head a little while watching those politicians perform, but he could only lower his eyelids in front of his lover and friends. In the political game, Nascimento looked very lonely when he found out that he was always a pawn. But when his bottom line was crushed, the flame that burst out from his heart was still amazing. In fact, this flame has never been extinguished. It always scorches the emotions of the audience and makes us worry about every crime in a country that we have basically never touched.



If there is any movie worth going to the cinema to watch in November, it can only be this "Elite Troops", which is actually not released simultaneously.

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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within quotes

  • Fortunato: I hate those human rights mantras! "You can't touch the scumbag..." "You can't touch the scumbag..." "Here, have some candy, scumbag..." "Take those flowers, dealer!" What a joke!

  • Fortunato: Governor... you know what this is? The "kiss it good-bye" dance.