Rio de Janeiro is called the "City of God" because of the statue of Jesus on the top of the mountain, but the "City of God" in the film is a slum in Rio de Janeiro, where chaos, dirt, robbery, drug trafficking, fire and all the time appear. , even every child has a pistol, such a chaotic place is called "the city of God", which is extremely ironic.
This is a gangster film. I have never caught a cold with this type of subject matter. I fell asleep while watching The Godfather. I watched this film patiently, but I found that the director's ambition is really great. For more than two hours, I was stunned to tell the history of the rise and fall of gangster characters in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s/70s/80s. The characters are full, the story is compact, the suspense setting is just right, and the face is blind as I also basically recognized the main characters. all over.
After reading it, my mind was still confused, so I asked myself a few questions to try and help me sort out the context. Who is the main character of this film? What is the purpose?
After digging into the history of gangsters in Rio de Janeiro, I really don't have the interest to study and verify. The protagonist is Ah Pao, forgive me, it may be a translation problem, I laughed for a long time when I saw this name. Ah Pao is the main character because he acts as a third-party narrator from beginning to end, but I think the film also has an invisible protagonist, the sharpshooter Schneider. Because both people changed their destiny because of hatred, and A Pao became a bystander and even became famous, while Schneider participated in it and paid his life for it.
One is rushing out of the fire, the other is sinking into hell. However, the director made the two meet on the bus in a dramatic way. Ah Pao thought of robbing Schneider, but was dissuaded by Schneider, saying that he had to make more money to get out of here. How ridiculous, the film is exactly this as a watershed, the fate of the two embarked on different directions.
The theme of this film should be - the city of God, the original nature of human beings is evil. All the great evils come from young people who do not have more troubles. Xiaodouzi murdered and robbed, killing the "three young heroes" in the 1960s, and the youth team shot and killed Xiaobawang, a terrible vicious circle. Back to the old question, are people born sinful, but born pure? This is a mystery that will never be solved.
The greatest miracle created by "City of God" is our hero, A Pao. His miracle lies in resisting temptation and always remaining neutral, not participating, not standing in line, timid, and skilled. Yes, it was skill and luck that made his miracle happen. Now let's talk about the story of the gun.
Ah Pao is a particularly inconspicuous black kid in "City of God". He is particularly inconspicuous because he is ordinary. Compared with his elder brother, Dumb, he is often overlooked. Ah'Dai was one of the "Three Young Heroes" back then. They robbed so they became famous. The three felt that they couldn't make a big name, so they went to rob the hotel, but they were betrayed by their little brother "Xiaodouzi". All three went to see God, but two of them were passive.
A Pao knew that Xiaodouzi killed his brother, but he was cowardly, because he was kind enough, and Xiaodouzi had become the drug dealer in the "City of God", so he went back in despair and continued to take his photos , to deceive the girl's heart to break his virgin defense. He used his camera to record that the girl he liked was abducted by Benny, who was dealing with drugs, but he couldn't hate Benny, because Benny was the coolest gangster in "City of God", he was generous and generous And easy-going, many friends do not kill innocent people, and always give him marijuana to smoke. When Benny was about to take his girl to retire on the farm, he was also going to give Ah Pao a camera, but unfortunately, Benny was shot to death. Benny's death, like the straw that broke the camel's back, completely aroused the tyranny of the bully, and the two gangs of drug dealers in the city of God began to formally fight. A Pao lives in a hail of bullets every day. Watching innocent people around him being robbed and killed, he finally decided to escape from here and work as a reporter in a newspaper office. At this time, Schneider was caught on TV, and Xiao Bawang was unwilling and wanted to take a photo to tell the media that he was the real boss. So Ah Pao's luck came, he was asked to take a picture of Xiaobawang, and because of this, the photo was taken seriously by the newspaper, and he ushered in his first time (shy) very sweetly. He tasted the sweetness and began to follow around with his camera, so he recorded the photos that made him famous overnight. The death of Xiao Bawang has made Ah Pao famous, and it can be regarded as compensation for killing his brother.
Therefore, the City of God has achieved only one miracle, that is, A Pao, who hated it so much but became famous because of it. Isn't life full of unknowns, friends before the movie, are you also extremely disgusted with the environment in which you live? Why not record them, who knows, never say hello when miracles come, right?
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