Padilla did a beautiful job. If "Elite Force" opened up a direction, then "Elite Force 2" is striding forward in this direction. Latin American movies have always had two complementary trends, critical realism and magical realism. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening, class antagonism is intensified, and corruption is proliferating. In the movies, they appear and disappear from time to time, and the two "Elite Troops" are actually Padilla who wrote two video essays critical of realism from the perspective of the state apparatus within the system.
Lieutenant Colonel Nascimento, who led the special police to fight drug dealers in "Elite Forces", was promoted due to his outstanding work performance and became the high-ranking Deputy Secretary-General of the Security Bureau in "Elite Forces 2", so he was ambitious. Nascimento launched a major security rectification operation: he vigorously strengthened the armed forces of the special police (elite) troops, and began to eradicate the gang drug dealers in the slums with an iron fist. He was vigorous and effective, and soon, the slums of Rio de Janeiro were pale. With light wind, Nascimento's work has achieved immediate results.
However, after the criminals disappeared, the good days of the people in the slums did not come. Soon, the corrupt police officers filled the power vacuum left by the gang, they bullied the market and rampaged the cave. They sell water, gas, and even monopolize Internet and cable TV services. Almost all public services have become commodities for corrupt policemen to capture high profits. Driven by profits, corrupt policemen Increasingly doing whatever he wants, killing people on the street is already a pediatrics, and it is not uncommon to shoot a black gun in the back of a colleague.
Nascimento's efforts seemed completely counterproductive. When the drug dealer gangs maintained the rules of social operation in the slums, things seemed not so bad. But as Nascimento's anti-crime actions deepened, he began to gradually fall into a huge power whirlpool-behind the corrupt police, there was a more advanced collusion of power and money, and his iron-fisted style also made Nascimento slowly change. After all the people betrayed their relatives, Naxi Mento did not hesitate and determined to fight the evil forces to the end.
Without the umbrella of power, there would be no underworld. Nascimento undoubtedly stabbed the hornet's nest this time. What he faced was not a single criminal organization or individual, but the entire corrupt system of the police and bandits. When he was a power windmill, Nascimento looked like the fearless Don Quixote of the ignorant. Fighting with people is full of fun, but fighting with the system can only be a lonely beast-in an impenetrable dark world, there are no heroes, only survivors. What Nascimento is facing is the entire corrupt power system. Unless it is completely overthrown, otherwise, within this system, he can only repair things and do some "paperworker" work. If he blindly does it, he will inevitably lead to it. Tragedy-Nascimento almost broke his family and died, which is the best portrayal.
Of course, the status quo of Brazil shown in "Elite Force 2" is not so desperate. The relatively independent media and the constitutional democracy of multi-party competition have given Nascimento considerable room for survival. Determined to fight the corrupt elements to the end, Nascimento gave a generous statement in court and shook the inside information to the media, thus successfully overthrowing a corrupt element (including some vested interests in some media) who were guarded by officials and officials. When Tuo and the corrupt police clashed in the street, some comrades in arms joined in with submachine guns and fought side by side with Nascimento.
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