The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. With unexpected endings and suspenseful beginnings, the technique of elevating the artistic appeal of film and television works to the top is called circular narration.
Just like the hot opening of "City of God", the sharply sharpened butcher knife, the panicked hen, the dazzling shots, the unrestrained music with Brazilian characteristics...There are too many elements, which quickly attracted The eyeballs of the audience led everyone into the slum in central Brazil and into the "City of God"-a city forgotten by God. Very cleverly, after the characters in the film went through a series of epic plots, after a series of bloody reshuffles, the film returned to its original point. The camera was re-focused on the panicked chicken, and the protagonist was back to the gun. Between the police and the gang...
The city of God-a city forgotten by God, a paradise for crime, and a purgatory for common people. Let alone how those eight or nine-year-old children can blast innocent people with a pistol at will, how can the people's police blatantly trade with drug dealers. What kind of cultural background can it not be assimilated by the prevailing European and American culture in the Americas, and form its own unique cultural circle-a street culture where passion and unrestrainedness, violence and blood coexist?
The director aimed the camera at this place, but how can such a place be expressed in film and television language? If you only tell a person’s story and use a person’s story to reflect the culture of the area, you will inevitably fall into the quagmire of individual heroism, and the unrestrained and vitality of everyone in the city of God will be lost. Performance. If it is a multi-line narrative that is used more in contemporary movies, it will appear chaotic. After all, no matter how many story lines are unable to express all aspects of a region, it is not as suitable as a panoramic view. Therefore, the director used Quentin Tarantino's usual chapter structure and circular narrative.
Just as "Pulp Fiction" combined the above two methods with bantering techniques, it perfectly showed the chaos of American society at that time, while "City of God" used the realistic technique with the above two methods to perfectly show the chaos. The darkness and blood of Brazilian society.
The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. Why did the protagonist live to the end, perhaps because he was lucky, or perhaps he was looking at the problem from the perspective of God, so he became a god. God looks at the absurdity of the world, but is powerless; God has the right to experience all the ups and downs, the right to see the beginning and end of all stories, but he can only lament, even if God walks from the beginning to the beginning, from the end to the end. At the end, all he can do is to perfect a tragedy, allowing future generations to comment on this forgotten city by God... The biggest surprise of the circular narrative is that it is God who tells the story.
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