The beginning of the film is a big commercial scene. Nascimento walked out of the hospital and drove away. On the way, he was stopped by several vehicles, and then he was violently shot. At this time, he cut to the black field. Nacimento started a monologue. With the sound of a new metal song, the title of the film. When it is played, the screen switches between the core cast and crew (black background) and the screen of the first part, flashing to the rhythm of the song. It has to be said that such a film form is very capable of capturing contemporary audiences visually and audibly. If the film is too realistic and dull, most audiences may not even watch it. In this way, what Jose wants to express The social situation cannot be passed on to the public, and it is difficult for the film to obtain enough economic benefits to support him to continue his film career. Jose focused on Brazil's social and political issues, and he did not fail to grasp and predict the market and audience preferences.
Nacimento is definitely the protagonist loved by the audience. The film does not even have a heroine. Except for Nacimento, all the other characters seem to be able to die, and they may die at any time.
From the first part, Nacimento has a strong sense of justice, fierceness and bravery. Maybe at first seeing his abuse of prisoners and torture to extract confessions, he will also feel compassion for the criminals and think whether Nacimento is too violent, but gradually we found out , First of all, these criminals deserve what they deserve; secondly, if they are not vicious enough, Skulls can only be slaughtered by others. Only with the physical strength of special forces, the ferocity of gangsters, the most authentic and reliable sense of justice from the heart, wit, bravery, calmness and other almost perfect qualities can You can become a skull, and only in this way can you fight thousands of criminals in Rio.
Nacimento is a real tough guy, but also a tough guy with both brains and a sense of justice, so the bad cops represented by Roca will not even try to bribe him, but directly murder him. His mind made him think, and the end of the film is still his monologue:
"Until now, this system still exists. This system, the head has been replaced by the arm, the system has been reorganized, focusing on new interests and establishing new leaders. Hierarchy. As long as the outside world allows the system to survive, it will continue to operate. Answer me, who supports all this? Yes, it is very expensive, very expensive. This system is much bigger than I thought , no wonder the police, drug dealers and self-defense forces killed so many people in the favelas, no wonder there were favelas, no wonder there were so many scandals in Brasilia. The government was changing, and the corruption continued. Change , it will take a long time. It's a terrible system, and more innocent people will die."
Towards the end of the film, an aerial shot is passing through the Capitol in Brasilia, and this paragraph is just asked. : "Who supported all this?" Under the spectacular view of the Capitol, the film takes aim at the highest level in Brazil.
Nacimento's sense of justice and responsibility to the whole society made him ignore his wife and family. His wife left him. In less than two hours, the film has a certain explanation for Nacimento's family and son. People admire the director's narrative skills.
As mentioned earlier, almost everyone in the film can die. I say that because the director did exactly that. If the elite army is a combination of business and art, and fierce fighting is its business side, then realistic death is its artistic side.
Whether Netu was shot from behind by a drug dealer, or Andrew was shot from behind by Rocca, or the volunteers in the first part and the female reporter in the second part, they are all very real and cruel. The female volunteers and female reporters are also young and beautiful girls, and their deaths make it even more felt that such a society can destroy all good things - in violent, ugly and unacceptable ways.
At the same time, the deaths of these people also criticized some naive social forces. Tell the volunteers that love can never change the current situation of drug abuse in the slums; also tell the reporters that you can't expose the ugliness of the police, you can only lose your life in vain. Violence is the real effective means.
However, the second film also has an effective non-violent means, and that is Fraga. The appearance of this character gives us some hope. If Nascimento is confronted by violent means at the middle and lower levels, then Fraga is reforming at the upper level by peaceful means. The two people who seem to be far apart are actually The goal of struggle is the same, Fraga may become Nacimento's most loyal ally, and the union of the two finally gave me a glimmer of hope. Brazilian society needs people like them. Perhaps only their reformed system can overcome the ugliness of human nature, so that corruption and the use of power for personal gain can no longer breed.
Putting the first two together, we can see that the current Brazilian system cannot achieve harmony in any case: if you fight too much crime, the police will directly oppress the people on behalf of the criminals, and they will also do what the criminals do, beating and murdering; But if corrupt police are punished, crime will soar again and criminals will be out of control. And it is the poor people who are powerless and incapable of being caught in the midst of suffering.
Brazil is a country, I used to think that they were only ahead of us in football, but after watching this film, I feel that we are too far behind in this regard.
It's not that the Great Heaven Dynasty did not send X to charge "management fees". In addition, there are ordinary people who died in the middle of the night by vicious dogs, steel pipes and excavators, as well as hawkers who were weighed to death by themselves, and thousands of various An incredible way to die.
Although our security situation is better than Brazil's, we won't have a movie with such a theme, no one will make it, no one dares to make it. Director Jia's "Apocalypse" may involve some, but that is the limit of harmony.
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