story that started with a chicken, a chicken that escaped from a butcher knife.
In the slums of Rio de Janeiro, he was also holding a gun when chasing the fleeing chicken. This is almost an area where the gun can't leave the body. This place is called the "City of God".
In this city, if you choose to be a civilian, then you are equivalent to waiting to be robbed; if you choose to be a robber, then you are equivalent to waiting to be shot. Which one is better? Many people choose the latter, perhaps because robbery can happen every day, and shooting only requires pain once.
There is no doubt that this is a violent movie. Compared with the "New York Gangs" released in the same period, "New York Gangs" is just a violent movie covered in sugar, while "City of God" is suffocatingly real, even though you can hardly see a drop of red paint in the film. Into blood.
The hotel murder case gave Zie the first chance to try bloody pleasure. When Zie was a child, he had learned to raise a gun and shoot bullets at people who had no grievances against him and listen to them wailing. why is that? What is it that makes children who should be pure enough to sense all things bloodthirsty? Zie finally fulfilled his wish and became the gang boss. He can shoot his own subordinates with one shot, just because he talks too much and annoys Zie; he can grab two children at random to injure their hands and feet, forcing the new children in his gang to be among the two children of the same age. Choose one to kill, then laugh and slap him on the shoulder and call him a brother; he can humiliate a man who is also black, just because the man's girlfriend doesn't want to dance with Zie.
It seems that Zie is a heinous guy! But he closed his eyes for Steak, his child who had informed him about the death, as if he was also human; he gave him the camera after Robert took the picture of them, because he remembered that his only friend gave it to Robert. .
It is inevitable that a child who has been bullied will have a cruel mentality. If the environment of life is a place where you have to worry all the time, children have only two choices: either hide, study obediently like Robert, and watch the melee thoroughly; or be the boss by themselves. Zie chose the latter. I think in addition to what everyone said he was ambitious, there was also the fear he hid in his heart. The best way to overcome the fear of being pointed at by someone at any time is to point the gun at someone first.
Zie later died under the guns of his group of children. Because it was he who taught that group of children to become famous as soon as possible-these children are illiterate and cannot read Zhang Ailing.
The "City of God" is hopeless. In this sunny city, the shadows cast by the sun are everywhere: the police are either incompetent or colluding with the robbers; those who yearn for a rural life will only die early, even Zie's best Friend Benny, the coolest and calmest robber in the city, couldn't escape this fate. Benny is very cool. He has beautiful girls and a lot of friends, but he has no life to enjoy. He died under a bullet that had hoped to kill Zie.
The plot of the film is adapted from real events-this is really a country full of contrasts, enthusiasm and coldness coexist, faith and killing coexist. In fact, where is it not like this? It's just a matter of contrast. If you want to live more comfortably, it is best to be calm and realistic, just like the fictional narrator Robert in the film, living in it, shooting the reality with a camera, and then selling it to the newspaper. Putting aside social conflicts such as racial issues that individuals are unable to reverse, it is best to have a clear grasp of reality in the present.
There is another contrast in the film, that is, the darker the skin, the whiter the teeth.
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