Many years later, the "City of God" made me remember a place called "City of God", a group of young people who turned around with a sigh when the demons saw it.
Perhaps it can be said that these are the only two films in many years that have been personally willing to give full marks to them.
The term "City of God" is derived from the "Bible" and according to Augustine's interpretation: Although the religions and customs of the world are different, the language and the clothes are different, but in the final analysis there are nothing more than two "cities". One is a secular city, composed of people who are willing to live by carnal desires. They turn away from God and are enslaved by carnal desires. They love themselves and despise God, and they are doomed to destruction. The other is the city of God, which is composed of people who are willing to live spiritually. They obey God so that they can dominate a carnal life. They love God so that they despise themselves, and they will eventually become God's chosen people and be saved.
However, this theory of two "cities" is wrong. At least, in this movie called "City of God", what appears is another "city" that neither deviates from God nor obeys God, because everyone never knows God, and God never knows everyone. Of course There is no talk of deviation or obedience. Where there is no God, there is no devil, there are only people, and in a place where there are only people, you are either a cup or an insulted cup. You must be one of the two.
Aisha's narrative style in this movie.
Fierce, psychedelic, not exaggerated, unpretentious, not sentimental, not standpoint, just like the shimmering dagger that was repeatedly sharpened in the beginning of the movie, it looks like every shot, every face, every inch of land, and even the sky. Every piece of dust has been precisely calculated, and it almost indifferently pushes the viewer into a suffocated and dazed place wave after wave, gorgeous like a model prose that "the shape is scattered and the spirit is not scattered."
When the movie was released, the British Guardian critics said it well, "You can run to the theater, don't walk to the theater. That's all I can say."
In addition, if there is anything worth saying, it is:
It is said that all the actors who participated in this movie were found from the real "City of God"-Rio de Janeiro's slums. The black-and-white satellite map that appeared in the movie about gangs fighting for territory is also the real "City of God". ", non-cottage.
It is said that in the beginning of the movie, the scene of the "gang of three" looting the hotel with guns was shot in a real hotel, and the hotel was still open at the time, so that the real wild mandarin ducks later complained to the hotel owner, hey How can there be the sound of shooting when it is screaming.
It is said that although the film was actually shot in a relatively safe place next to it not in the real "City of God", the director still unavoidably said afterwards that if he had known that filming in Rio de Janeiro was so dangerous, so pornographic and violent, he had to take care of it. With his head tied to the waistband, he would never come to make this movie.
It is said that in the last part of the movie, the group of little boys who discussed about making a "must kill list" in the city, 7 years after the film was completed, really formed Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious and none of the gangsters "Red" Order", there is really a "must-death list"...
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