This is what I remembered after watching Elite Force.
The film itself is based on real events in Rio de Janeiro, and I think a few key words are enough to sum up the whole film - "politics", "slums", "corruption", "police". Most young people with ideals will be high-spirited and even a bit pretentious when they are just starting out. During the process of slowly getting in touch with society, their hearts are also quietly changing - some people will choose to be upright like Hai Rui. , to be a Puritan of their own beliefs; some people will be as smooth as Zhang Juzheng, as elegant as a gentleman, but have learned the ability to hide a knife in a smile; some people will turn to Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, and although they hate evil, they will live in a blind way. attitude, more people will choose to remain silent and let themselves be buried in the sand of history. The same goes for Nascimento, the protagonist of the film. He wants to eradicate all drug gangs in Rio, and he wants to protect his son. As he grows older, the goal he strives for has not changed, but has become more determined. Until a series of events later made him sadly discover that what he did was in vain, "As long as the external environment allows the system to survive, it can continue to operate; even if those evil forces are eliminated, there will still be new forces coming. replace it". At this time, what can he do? Perhaps staying at the hospital bed and waiting for his son's condition to improve and recover would make him feel more comfortable. Most of us would probably make the same choice when faced with Nascimento's predicament.
Going back to the sentence at the beginning of the movie, a German poem can explain the meaning of this sentence very well:
I didn't speak when they killed the communists, because I was not a communist.
When they killed the trade unionists, I was didn't speak because i wasn't a worker
i didn't speak when they killed the jew because i wasn't a jew
Then they came to the Catholics and I didn't speak because I was a Protestant.
When they killed me, no one spoke because there was no one left
. There was never a shortage of political dissidents, extremists, dissatisfied with society, They hate the government and the system, but they can only hold a helpless attitude towards the silent compatriots around them. It’s just that I am sometimes one of them, but more often I want to live in the world of “News Network” – not just for the low-rent housing of 77 yuan and the smiles on the faces of the people on TV. Harmonious society, but also so that in this world you will no longer be entangled in what is right and what is wrong - this is a very nerve-racking thing, others have already made a choice for you, you just accept it - — although you may still not be really a part of this world. In this world, everything you want to know will be told why, and when you're willing to go a step further and ask them why they know these things and you don't, they're usually annoyed and sometimes even stop feeding you. Eat and clothe you. If you don’t want to be hungry or clothed, just forget about these issues. Sometimes, overthinking is not necessarily a good thing.
But if I really want to know, what is good and what is evil?
such as prisoners of war. In war, there are inevitably some people who grit their teeth with hatred for the prisoners of war, because these prisoners of war may also have the blood of their brothers who fought alongside them; People, their rights as human beings also need to be protected. Some of the former are heroes of the country who fight for the interests of the country, and they deserve to be respected by all; some of the latter are fighters of human rights, and their behavior of fighting for the interests of others regardless of personal gain or loss is also unacceptable. should be applauded by others. On the stage of history, all the applause goes to national heroes and human rights fighters, but who has ever paid attention to those prisoners of war who are curled up in the corners of the stage and can only be glimpsed when the curtain of history falls? Uh, off topic. It is difficult to distinguish between the good side and the evil side of the war from a neutral point of view. People can only smell good and evil from history textbooks and lengthy film and television works. If you chew it carefully, you will find that this kind of taste is just artificially added, sometimes the taste is heavier, and sometimes the taste is lighter. Those with a strong taste are often to cover up certain truths, and those with a weak taste are just because these historical episodes are innocuous and do not pose a threat to some people.
Like this movie. In Rio de Janeiro's newspapers and TV, the police became heroes because they wiped out illegal organizations and killed the people; Rio de Janeiro became paradise because crime has been eliminated here. Rio's governor and Guaracy congressman are well-dressed, and they talk about their welfare programs in front of the media. There is no stain in their lives. They seem to be the embodiment of justice... If there is no Nascimento's generous statement, all of this will be will continue. However, the fact is that in Rio de Janeiro, the favelas have become political arenas, and the fight against drug gangs is just to cover up their ulterior political goals. The corrupt police force is far more harmful to the public than those despised drug gangs. Fortunately, the public did not know. They feel that this world is the world they describe from the pen and eyes of others. The standard for judging good and evil is not in the hands of the media and public opinion, but they can influence ordinary people's judgment of good and evil. It is an evolutionary process for the world to become what it is now, and you can't want the world to change immediately, just like you can't immediately wipe out all the mosquitoes in the world. "As long as the external environment allows the system to survive, it can continue to operate". Nascimento alone can't change anything, what we need is conscience, the right to know the truth, so that more Nascimento will appear; just like you can reduce mosquito breeding soil by maintaining a clean and tidy environment. Mosquitoes cannot be completely wiped out, and the world cannot be completely like Peach Blossom Garden, but at least we can make the world look a little more "harmonious" instead of the kind of "harmony" created by 77 yuan of low-rent housing and people's smiling faces. ".
"Good and evil pay off in the end", this is a truth.
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