half angel half satan

Ona 2022-03-21 09:02:00

As the winner of the 2008 Berlin Golden Bear, the film deserves its name. This film tells the transformation process of Mathias becoming a qualified member of the BOPE Brazilian Black Skull Force through flashbacks. He witnessed the corruption in the system and the ignorance of the rich. When Nacimonto was going to return to his family to look for a successor, he went through inhuman selection and training. After Nuo was killed in ambush, Matthias succeeded Neto as the successor to be cultivated by Nacimonto, and in the process of revenge for Neto, he strengthened his beliefs: use violence to control violence, not rot or soft, from the body Until the soul has completed its true belonging - he is the chosen person born for the black skeleton. This work can be regarded as the prologue of "Elite Force 2", and it can also be used as an independent work describing the growth of members of the Black Skull Force. This is another hyper-realistic record of Rio from the perspective of the military and police after "City of God": from content to form, from process to ending, Rio is the city of hell, and God can only stand on the top of the mountain and look down sin. Black skeletons are more demons than demons, they can't solve the root of the problem, but they can solve the problem itself, not by preaching like the pope, but by making black skeletons with daggers and bullets. When sin accumulates to a certain extent, only violence can manifest justice, and only violence can suppress sin. The executioner is half angel and half Satan.

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  • Trent 2022-04-24 07:01:08

    Why is the score so harsh, it's good, the sensory impact is extremely strong and effective, and it is reasonable, amazing and thought-provoking. It's a fantastic political movie embedded in a commercial format.

  • Kaitlin 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    D+ / Still feel that the choice of the narrator of the film is too closed due to lack of room for thinking. It is neither conducive to rhythm control nor close to the most abundant character in fact (what about discipline and punishment?). It is one thing to put forward a sufficiently "real" position, and it is another to finally open up to the possibility of reaching "ideal" beyond this simple position. Now it's like standing firm on unbreakable pragmatism, rejecting almost any outside judgment. The seemingly "real" hand in the system of genre films doesn't seem to erase that layer of violent game meaning, which inevitably makes people doubt this kind of chic and straightforward...?

Elite Squad quotes

  • Capitão Nascimento: [as the police squad arrives at the bottom of the slum, regular policemen starts to prepare to follow them] Nobody's going up! Nobody's going up!

  • Trainee officer: Men in black what is it that you do?

    Student: I do things that scare even Satan himself!

    Trainee officer: Men in black what is your mission?

    Student: Get into the slam and leave corpses on the ground!