The real protagonist of the film is not the character, but the slums of Rio de Janeiro. In the 1960s, a residential construction plan called the "City of God" began to resettle the poor. In the early 1980s, this area became the most dangerous zone in Rio de Janeiro.
Growing up in a slum, Baskap dreamed of becoming a photographer since childhood. Over the course of two decades of growth, he witnessed the chaotic life of the brutality, greed, revenge, ambition, betrayal, and plunder of the city of God, and finally a catastrophic gang fight.
After watching it, I was deeply touched-why would I actually like to watch Chen Haonan's "Young and Dangerous" and many Hong Kong gangster movies later? Compared with "City of God", those movies are more like youth idol dramas that deceive innocent girls.
This film is not only Brazil, which I am very interested in. It is not only a true story, not only more than a hundred non-actors who have been trained. It is not only fierce, rich, true, novel in technique, and more importantly there. Behind the scenes described one after another, you can taste the meaning of one after another. How many young and Dangerous are in suits and shoes like "The Godfather"? The vast majority of young and Dangerous are bullies who are more vicious and greedy than street bullies. It is said that Young and Dangerous is a two-sided problem of both individuals and society, but there are so many gangster films that really reflect this problem is very small. Although the environment in Brazil is far from ours, we have to say that this movie is a model of reality.
"City of God" reminds me to some extent of "Tsotsi", the latter is also a movie that shocked me and felt quite real and three-dimensional (mentally three-dimensional). It's just that the angles of the two films are different. The latter is obviously more optimistic and bright, and in addition to showing you a bloody society in "City of God", everything else depends on whether you can ignore it. The scene at the end of the movie is a group of innocent and cruel gossip of a group of prematurely murderous children. Their backs are happily going further and further away. The movie stops, and I feel heavy and unable to extricate myself. The understatement of irony is looming in the film from beginning to end, and some film critics say that the film is full of bright hope. Laozi foamed at the mouth and collapsed to the ground.
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