When I watched it, I guessed that the director Fernando Meirelles might have a background in commercials, and he did it before. Old-fashioned directors like this kind of jump-cut editing often have a poor grasp of their measures. Fernando Meirelles is fluent and proficient, and feels first-rate when he sports the camera. My interest in "City without a Master" lies in the subject matter: there is no future and a violent life in the slums. However, Fernando Meirelles’ sense of rhythm is often like shooting MTV, but he knows the right time to grasp the scale of retraction, and the story became more and more exciting afterwards. So some people say that this movie is cool and commercial enough, I can roughly understand it.
Some parts of the film actually have a strong sense of design. For example, when Binney, a very fashionable gangster, began to fantasize about his pastoral life, the audience had already guessed that he might not live long. The sense of the times is rather weak, and the influence of the hippie trends in the 1960s and 1970s on Binney did not impress the audience much. As for the male protagonist of the film, he is also a narrator, and he is naturally a fictional witness who has witnessed the slums in different periods. For a director who is not familiar with slum life, he often needs to use the original story (it is said to be a semi-autobiographical novel) and the performance of a group of street teenagers to highlight the texture and realism-this is very similar to "Good Morning Mumbai" ", but the latter’s documentary effect is stronger, while the nature of "Blessed City" is much more ambiguous (sadly, these two films seem to hint to us that the Indian subcontinent and the new South American continent are destined to be gods Abandoned land, class division is even more heinous). But because of the concentrated theme and outstanding image style, "Borderless City" can be regarded as a good movie.
The later "The Immortal Gardener" was much worse, I am afraid it was too close to Hollywood.
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