The first thing to mention is the general editing and narration of the movie, which is indeed a Latin American movie! ! ! The rhythm of the movie and the switching of the shots are absolutely difficult to find in American genre movies, European art movies or Hong Kong action movies! It has the sense of sight of the "samba of sound and picture", casual narration, and under the premise that the overall story can be told well, the partial story will never proceed according to the normal linear narrative method, just take a typical scene in the movie— —The narration of the film Rocket came to the old friend’s site to buy marijuana, and at this time it happened to be Li' l Zé came to grab the site. In this scene, the director used three segments to diverge the narrative, telling three segmented stories separately, and each shot transition also uses a different camera position. Of course, this arrangement is to avoid It is monotonous, but the different characters focused by the camera position also presuppose the different characters to be told next. The so-called "Ukiyo-e" film does not use a wide-angle pan lens to show a certain area horizontally, nor does it use a fragmented montage lens to tell a certain era in the vertical direction. This "City of God" is actually a movie. Rio's "Ukiyo-e". The film did not use moral preaching to explain the social ethics of the common people. It just borrowed a cowardly character who wanted to be a photographer since childhood to watch all this with cold eyes. The life scenes of the slums in Rio are in front of him. Rolling out, we saw the scuffle of sharp folk gangsters, the poverty of the bottom of society, and the disgusting bureaucratic corruption, and so on. In fact, after watching this movie, many people will think why the details of slum life in the movie can be portrayed so delicately and realistically. In fact, all of this is inseparable from the fact that the film crew uses the civilians to act as actors in the local life. It appears throughout the movie. Dozens of main characters are basically residents of the "City of God". The true appearance and extremely grounded character dialogue have brought a strong sound and picture impact to people, such as Rocket in the movie with his brother. In the dialogue, his brother blamed himself for being slapped by his father and his younger brother was laughing. Then the two brothers had a dialogue about this. In fact, such a dialogue was not the creation of the original script, but the temporary free play of the two actors. So when we look at these life-like dialogue scenes, we feel natural and appropriate. Although the story is told with restrained and calm inner-focused narrative discourse, this does make the audience feel the cruel and helpless reality of reality, but it does not prevent the film from telling the story in a condemning tone, whether it is forced or indulged by countless minors The firearms struggle or the drug trade under anarchism are both looking at fragile humanity with a cold third eye. It may also be in the eyes of Rio, the "City of God". In fact, human life is a cheap name. It's not as practical as a small bag of cocaine. The final ending of the movie is actually indifferent and tragic, but I prefer to call it the normal replacement, right? Although Li'l Zé is dead, the new generation of dwarf gang will naturally give birth to a new Li' l Zé, this is a hopeless endless loop. The movie just wants the audience to coldly throw out this unsolvable equation, but the answer to this equation is at least unsolvable from the point of view of the film's creator. They are burial mounds buried under the bones of negative nouns such as drugs, guns, and violence. When watching this movie, I always think of another movie-"Rwanda Hotel", but the difference is that that movie brought me intense grief, and this movie is indeed ridiculous. The style is cold. Some people say why the fate of black people is so tragic? It’s difficult to answer the banter anyway. I just think that the concept of misery is always a relative term. Moreover, Rio is only a large Latin American nation, not a unified black. Whites also suffer a lot from the same, but they have a complicated social and historical role. Next, we are all slaves of life, but God does not want us to give up life completely, so he created an illusory city for us.
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