City of God

Godfrey 2021-10-19 09:47:32

Reprinted from: http://ghostq.yculblog.com/post.614628.html

This film title always reminds me of the famous Jesus Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, the pitiful Jesus Christ opened his arms and turned himself into a representative The cross of suffering.
Under his silent gaze, the famous slum of the City of God was living and fighting lively. And he, continuing to stay silent, is it pity, anger, or dumb laugh? We will never know.
In the City of God, we know that to deal with a chicken escaping to survive, you have to draw a gun. This smart chicken broke through the cage and rushed to the world of freedom. However, it had to face a group of gun-armed gangs behind him, the wheels of the police, and the story narrator who blocked the way in front of him: looking forward to becoming a photographer's rocket.
The absurdity of the post-modern style is fully revealed.
Let us enter the real story.
Li Si is the boss of the City of God. When he had not yet obtained the name "Li Si" and was still called the weird name "Hub Boy", even though his childhood gang life was spent behind his brother's ass, he also hinted to us a little bit of his unruly and unruly. Wild. The gentle trio of the year and the young and Dangerous boys in the three small areas all had a younger brother, only him, ignoring the age gap between himself and his eldest brother, and arrogant.
What he wants to do is a career, not a mess of his brothers.
The robbery of the hotel is a big event, and everyone has changed the trajectory of their lives because of this incident. Hubzi reported to the gentle trio, thinking that this hotel was worth a lot of money. Unexpectedly, the gentle trio left him outside the hotel, job function: lookout. How can Li Si, who is about to smash the future of the City of God, be willing? He released false news according to the agreed secret code. The gentle trio thought that the police had really come, and fled in panic, leaving the house full of panic residents and restrained staff.
Hubzi Shi Shiran entered the hotel and felt very good.
As if to confirm my old saying that "children are heartless", he went on to kill. In the bloody Si Li, we can see the satisfied smile of Hubboy.
However, he is also a child after all, and after the cool off, he is still afraid of facing his brother. He took the huge sum of money he had intercepted and fled with his best friend Binney.
The horrific and bloody crime fell on the gentle trio. Hubzai's brother, Duomao, was shot dead by the police. The captain saw a miracle in the illusion and converted to God during the night while avoiding the pursuit. Rocket’s brother, Duck Duck, was about to escape the police, but he accidentally met the fleeing Hubboy. Hubzi hates Duke Duck, because Duck Duck is the person who treats him least as a character. He killed Duke Duck. I broke off with the past.
It's always easy for people who don't care to achieve brilliance. He became the boss of the City of God and robbed the most expensive business: drugs. Since then sitting on the city of God. "Organized and disciplined." No one dared to commit crimes in his jurisdiction, and everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment. Someone covered it, and some medicine knocked it off, and for a while, the City of God suddenly became a paradise.
However, the foreshadowing in the movie is always so magical and effective. When the sorcerer gave him the name "Li Si", he also gave him a string of amulet, and he sternly warned him not to have sex with a woman wearing this string of amulet. It seems that the way of witchcraft is really the same. All parts of the world will create rules that women can break spells because of the mysterious menstrual blood phenomenon of women. Anyway, Li Si will definitely fall on a woman.
He has grown up. Binney, who has become his right arm and right arm, said, "You should find a girlfriend," and he was moved. In fact, Li Si was also a simple child in some ways. He didn't know how to find this woman. The same simple gang boss and the woman in "My Gangster Wife", but she was lucky, she was looking for a safe man without any harm, and Li Si, she was looking for the sharpshooter boxing champion in the army. Nepalese woman.
If Li Si is more handsome and has a wrist, maybe he can pry this woman into his hand, just like Binney did, but the only way for him to express his love and possessiveness is to choose to live a life of his duty. In front of boxing champion Ni, raped this woman. The amulet shook with the rhythm of the body, shocking.
Boxing King Ni broke out. He followed another weaker boss in the City of God: Carrot, and began a journey of revenge against Li Si.
And Binny, the most upright gangster in the City of God, the yuppie in his bones, ended his life at his golden basin handwashing conference. The balance between the two gangs that he had been painstakingly maintained was instantly lost. Li Si is going to kill the carrots.
The police looked at him coldly. They had accumulated countless combat experience and wealth in the fight against the gang. This rally must be rewarding.
Sure enough, both sides were hurt, and the police caught it in one fell swoop.
Carrots are dedicated to the media. Li Si was blackmailed of all his assets and released.
He still wants to make a comeback. He has incredible confidence in himself.
However, a new generation of street teenagers has risen, and the first huge brick to be removed is Li Si. The teenagers raised their guns, and Li Si's body opened up countless bullet holes. They are exactly the age of the boss who kills them. When people are old, they must know how to make room for growth in time for the newcomers, and take their respective positions. This is God's arrangement.
Thinking of the Leopard brother on the street in "Sweet Honey", there are some similarities, but also too many differences. Leopard’s death is a pity, the hero’s death in the street gangsters, and Li Si’s death is a fate, the same is the hero’s death in the street gangsters, but this time the street gangsters have risen and become the new owner of the City of God. .
We spent these two hours in gunfire and samba music, no matter from which angle, it was wonderful.
God bless the city of God. This is the city of God with different laws of survival.

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City of God quotes

  • Zé Pequeno: Can you read?

    Gang Member: I can read only the pictures.

  • [after seen his pictures printed in the front page of the news by mistake]

    Buscapé: Fuck... I'm dead!

    [cut to slum]

    Zé Pequeno: What's the name of that friend of yours who took this pictures?

    Thiago - Tiago: Buscapé.

    [Enjoying the pictures]

    Zé Pequeno: Buscapé! The guy is good!