A panicked and frightened chick, chased by a group of kids holding guns, laughing and cursing, and with a series of sharp shots, opened the prologue of "City of God", which made the audience think it was staged. The alternative "Little Chicken Run". Only when I think back at the end of the movie, everyone’s fate is like a chicken, and cannot be avoided. In the long river of history, people’s fate is just like a person’s name, but the ugly human nature is in reincarnation.
"City of God" is the most violent movie, so some netizens commented: ""City of God" is crisper than "Matrix" and more enjoyable than "Memory Puzzle". "City of God" is better than "Young and Dangerous". "A hundred times more vicious-if you only want to watch one movie this year, watch "City of God"!" That's right, but to be more precise, "City of God" is a truly violent movie, not Fake violence. In films of fake violence, blood, victims, and perpetrators are magnified as much as possible, and it seems unreasonable to put it in reality. "City of God" rarely has bloody horror scenes that make timid people yell, no bloody pleasure, no depressive mania, but it is very violent because of what it describes Violence is real-terrifyingly real!
At the same time, "City of God" is definitely not a movie of escape and darkness. It does not convey the brilliance of humanity like the equally excellent movie "Shoshink's Redemption", nor does it promote humanity like "Diving Bell and Butterflies". Liberation, but to let the audience see the colorful world through the intense black, a movie that touches the light and sunshine by facing the darkness! There are many noir films, such as "The Good Guy", "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", Hong Kong Films "Underworld", "Dog Bites" and so on. No doubt they are all good movies, but they are as direct as "City of God". The anatomy of humanity is like the black of human nature being cut to the full by a delicate scalpel, so facing it directly, this piece is the only one. Throughout the whole film, when I was so addicted, I seemed to hear the director giggling at the audience and saying: "Human nature is ugly, don't you dare to face it? Okay, I will let you face it!" The audience-at least I- —I can truly feel the quality sincerity and valuable persistence of the director and team. This film has an IMDB score of 8.8/10, such a high score, it deserves it!
The protagonist of the film is not any of the many characters in the film, but the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, which is nicknamed the "City of God". Rows of poor resettlement houses built under the government’s poverty alleviation program are scattered and scattered, but behind the calm surface, the director takes us to a brutal, crazy, cold-blooded gang fight, naked people fighting between people, dirty Drugs and guns are everywhere, everywhere! The film uses Rocket’s vision to cut into the world he grew up in. In the calm eyes of a child who dreamed of becoming a photographer since he was a child, the story of gangs fighting, the story of the disappearance of life, the story of the change of dynasties, across From the 1960s to the 1980s, it was staged in an absurd and true manner for 30 years.
A good movie is a good story, but it is by no means a story with gorgeous packaging and a powerful star lineup like "The Promise", empty and pretending to be profound! The script of "City of God" is adapted from one of Brazil's best-selling novels "God's Town". The story that takes place in the city of God is undoubtedly fascinating, allowing the audience to see behind the enthusiastic samba country known to them. Stunning and shocking bottom-level real status quo. Rocket, who was born in Si and grew up in Si, is familiar with the sinister rules of survival and can easily navigate here, several failed double-grabbing behaviors and unsuccessful crushes, making him the only non-gangster character in the film, "The City of God" "The story of "From the vision of his growing up, starting from Ze’s 8-9 year old killing, Ze, who was in charge of letting out the wind, took all the dozens of men, women, and children in a hotel that had just been ransacked by his brothers. Shoot all of them without slipping through the net, good fellow! The face doesn't change, as if playing a computer shooting game calmly, all this is just to show off to the sneaky brothers. After years of bloody battles, the cold-blooded and brutal Ze eventually became the number one FIT man in the City of God. At the same time, he was doomed to come to the end of his life. He died under the gun of a group of 8-9-year-old teenagers who claimed to be the future rulers; "The coolest boss in the City of God"-Benny, who has become brothers with Ze since he was a little boy, is calm and wise, with a nice American Hippy look and attire. When he was tired of sin and prepared to leave his love with him, God made a joke for him. A bullet that was not originally shot at him passed through his body to end his life. Where can the small and fragile life be contained? There are also many characters and story lines that are vividly and truthfully presented to the audience. The violent factor in human nature is appropriately exposed by the director, so that we can clearly see what is going on, see it clearly, and leave it to the audience. It is a deep thinking. The stories that happened here are not only in the city of God, but exist in every corner of our world. The city of God is a microcosm of the world. Violence, violence to violence, human-to-human fighting, domestic violence, inter-religious struggles, factional conflicts, ethnic cleansing, national wars, etc. are all ongoing. The so-called legal system constraints and weak ethics are so pale and powerless in the face of people's greed, violence and conflicts of interest!
In addition to a good story, a good film must also have the ability to tell a story-the skill of a director. It is said that all the actors used in the film are non-professional actors, carefully selected from the local residents. Even the scenes of the film adopt the local existing streets and houses, and they are all authentic. Ambition. If the story of "City of God" brings me a shock of soul, then the shooting method of "City of God" brings me a visual shock. Shaking portable camera lens, 360-degree rotation and revolution lens, fast switching lens, etc. constitute a sharp picture. For example: there is a lens that is used to shoot the base camp of the gang. The direction and angle of the lens are always the same. People who are engaged in drug dealing Constantly switching faces and movements, the room also constantly switching furnishings. The director wanted to tell the audience: The gang's base camp has not changed, but the owner has changed. In just over ten seconds, Dao exhausted the fierce struggle for power. Narrate so many characters and such a complicated story line clearly in 130 minutes, without procrastination and sensationalism. This can only be done by a genius director. The murder scene was not overly exaggerated, there was no exaggerated magnification effect, and there was no concealment at all. It was unspeakable and straightforward! Unspeakable shocking! Thank you "City of God", invited me to have a magnificent visual feast, and invited me to take a high-speed rolling roller coaster, through the city of God, through those people and things, through life and death !
In contrast, look at the top domestic directors who smashed hundreds of millions to make a movie, what kind of bird did they make? The gorgeous appearance of the empty flowers, won a lot of scolding, and gained a reputation for cheating money and food stamps! I can't seem to blame them, I'm not so impetuous! What kind of people are there for what kind of system! Hey~ It's too far, it's time to stop.
PS:
Woke up in the middle of the night last night, terrified~
So I am thinking about what I fear?
Is it a cruel beast? no!
Is it a monster with teeth and claws? Not really!
What is it?
It's human! People are the nightmare!
God fiddles with people,
how can there be any heaven! Hell is heaven!
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