Absurdity and embarrassment

Brett 2021-12-15 08:01:09

Life is like a gambling. No one knows what the opponent's hole card is. Only at the moment when the card is played can he know the arrangement of the goddess of fate. This asymmetry of information, that Sartre said is the inability to communicate well, has led to the poisoning of relationships between people, making society and others a hell.

"Elite Force" depicts such a Brazilian society that has been poisoned into hell. Living in such a society, people are destined to be FUCKed.

People who are unable to resist can only close their eyes and enjoy. So there are poor people in the slums who are forced to deal with drugs by the existential crisis, and rich people in the rich areas who are drawn to drug use by spiritual emptiness, and there are corruption between the two. Policemen. It should be said that these people who gave up resistance are all realists. They have accepted this sick society and found a way to survive in this sick society.

However, there are still some people who are unwilling to give up resistance. They are elite troops-a group of idealists who advocate violence. They suppress the arrogance of drug dealers, combat internal corruption, and despise the non-violent idealism of students. They don’t know who is a hero or a villain; they don’t know who is right and who is wrong; they don’t know who to lean against and who to turn away from. They only know that they have to use their own devilish force to maintain the god-like authority of society.

In an absurd society, no matter what an individual chooses, the final outcome is awkward. The outcome of non-violent idealists in this society is embarrassing. Either continue to be non-violent, like two college students engaged in NGOs in a slum, and burn their bodies after being killed, or choose violence, like the protagonist at the end of the film, to smash drug dealers. The head of the boss.

At the end of the film, the protagonist rejects the fantasy of non-violent idealism in his heart, and assumes the important task of using violence to maintain the only remaining point of justice in the absurd society.

But how long can his nerves last? Who knows?

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Extended Reading
  • Charlotte 2022-04-23 07:02:18

    The first half was really boring, the second half was great. Discusses the choice of procedural justice or consequential justice...

  • Corine 2022-04-23 07:02:18

    It was a bit wordy. Mathils was very relieved when he scolded the playboy in the university lecture hall.

Elite Squad quotes

  • Trainee officer: [during an information training session] Hey, Coordinator!

    Capitão Nascimento: Yes, my sir?

    Trainee officer: Soldier 05 is sleeping.

    Capitão Nascimento: Hey Soldier 05!

    [hands 05 a grenade, 05 takes the grendade]

    André Matias: Yes, sir?

    Capitão Nascimento: Please take this.

    [removes the pin]

    Capitão Nascimento: Hey 05, if you drop this granade you will make the whole place explode. You will blow up ALL of your colleagues, you will blow up all of my auxiliaries, and YOU will make myself explode. Will the sir fall asleep again?

    André Matias: No sir!

    Capitão Nascimento: [after 05 stares down the grenade] We are all trusting you, sir.

  • [repeated line]

    Capitão Nascimento: Ask to leave!