Rio is a paradise of indulgence promised by God to Brazil, and a hell of sin signed by Satan. In "Elite Squad" it is still a dark city with corrupt institutions and rampant crimes. Both the police and the drug dealers in the slums are well versed in this, so they can reach a tacit understanding and form an open underground order. As an ordinary policeman, he can only choose to accompany the evil or turn a blind eye, and take any step towards the so-called justice and light, and he may pay the price in blood. Fabio is a typical example. He does not have enough power and courage to eat "big tea and rice", and can only try not to make mistakes to protect himself. He also collects protection fees, but he has no control over his own territory. He spends more time eating and waiting for death. Like others, he also throws the corpse into the other party’s jurisdiction to reduce the crime rate. The system is full of complaints, fear, obedience, and gradually adapt to it. When Fabio met two subordinates who "must do something", his nightmare began.
Neto and Matias are passionate young people you can meet anywhere, jealous and unwilling to consume their best years in the system. The former is a passionate activist, and the latter hopes to change the system at the top, but they are always in the dark. At a loss in reality. In any case, they took the first step to destroy the system and faced the fate of being swallowed-or they chose to invest in BOPE and violence.
Matias's white college classmates live in a completely different world. They are born elites, often appearing as social conscience, and are keen to make pitiful comments on things that only know the skin, but they have never really been in the dark. They "living in a mansion facing south", they are very dissatisfied with their dignity when they are offended, and they take for granted the real world they are in. They think that being an NGO can gain insight into everything in the slums, but they habitually stand high. Acting with the face and attitude of Roberta—In the passage where Roberta counseled children in slums, she was upset about the children's performance, but she could not find that the other party had vision defects at all. They are used to the simple dichotomy-the police are bad, and their violent methods are of course even worse, so the poor who oppose them are actually good people worthy of sympathy-at the climax of the film, the empty fraternity of these people is indeed true Facing the reality of hatred and blood, it seemed vulnerable.
In "First Blood 4", Rambo warned the Christians who went to Burma to "you can't do anything." When the latter had to become a murderer in the end, he realized that he was not the Jesus of the world at all. Ren Dahua in "Exodus" once became a resister in the system, dreaming of discovering the truth and saving, but instead of becoming Moses, he succumbed and eventually perished. When you open your eyes, there is a real blood bowl in front of you, fleeing, dying, or something else? Matias made the final choice with bullets, and it seems that there is no better way.
Similar to "City of God" and "Bus 174", "Elite Squad" still uses a documentary-like image style, rough and fierce, and has a fast pace. It is also quite interesting to use Nascimento to "find a successor" to elicit the story, only the first half. It seems a little bloated to spread out the complicated plot, and the second half of the encounter is much easier.
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