(I don’t know much about the academic language of film, so I can’t show it, and my preference for film is mostly perceptual knowledge. I only know that no matter what work, the analysis of the two-dimensional method is “form + content”, calligraphy, painting, music, and film. Analysis by this method.)
When I first saw the film, I thought it was from South Africa, but later I saw that it was in Brazil. After all, apartheid in South Africa is stricter, and Brazil is more of a ghetto. The narrative of the whole film is very smooth, which must be due to the superb level of the photographer. Some words I think of to describe it are "fast follow-up, sudden freeze, dive, rotation, montage, acceleration, split screen switching... "In my impression, some small-budget films in China in recent years also have this style, such as "Crazy Stone", "My Name is Liu Yuejin", "Night Club" and so on.
The color of this film is also very good, there is a "natural yellow" exclusive to the slum area, a nostalgic feeling.
I can see the evolution of the "mixed society" around me from the growth of gangsters in Brazil's slums from the 1960s to the 1970s and 1980s, which is related to economic development, educational development, and immigration. It is related to the control and management of the state. my country has strict control over guns. Fights and fights among the "poor" are limited to bricks, iron bars, chains, and switch knives. Many years ago, air guns and shotguns were still used, but later all guns were banned. But the problem of the underworld is "inversely proportional" to the development of the economy. The rich underworld has more money to buy smuggled arms.
In this film, I am most impressed by the bespectacled Benny (the second character) and the irritable neurotic and ruthless Ze (the first character). Ze reminds me of some "bewitched boys" in my junior high school and elementary school, which I think are "inherently evil" or "unsolvable by education". Everyone who lives in the world and strives to live will have a vague reason. Is there any connection between living, living on someone else's head, and "using what means" to achieve it? I think sometimes it's irrelevant, some people's "lifestyle" is all they're alive.
The "gangster scouts" in the film are very neurotic, they will kill for no reason, because this is their primitive life.
Benny is the kind of conscientious person who appreciates people. We live in society, and we will more or less deal with all kinds of "underworld" people. We are lucky to meet people like Benny, but neurotic gangsters like Ze should be avoided.
The underworld thing doesn't know where it started, and I don't know when it will end. Finally, leave the applause to the photojournalists at the forefront of the battlefield. More or less reality and truth have been revealed and frozen. This is the love of photography, the love of peaceful life, and the love of fairness and justice.
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