The editing of "City of God" is very characteristic, it is sharp and lively, it uses a lot of close-ups, jump cuts, flashbacks, shake the camera to control the rhythm of the film, it is tense and fast, giving the audience a peculiar sense of visual impact, combining the violence and blood of the City of God. , the turmoil is concentrated in the lens, and it is vividly displayed. "City of God" adopts the circular narrative structure in the nonlinear narrative. The so-called circular structure narrative is the indistinguishable beginning and end of each paragraph in the film, the complementary structure, the beginning and the end are connected, and so on. Modern cinema uses non-linear narratives to break through the understanding of a single dimension of time. In the post-modern context, the disappearance of the traditional concept of time does not mean that time no longer exists in the present, but instead makes time acquire a new way of expression. One of the narrative metaphors embodying the "reincarnation of time", "the contingency of fate" and "the cycle of crime and violence", the circular narrative whose ideographic function possesses religious intuition, understanding and Zen is one of them. Through the recombination of time and space, the circular narrative explores people's emotions from a fresh perspective, and explores the ultimate meaning of life (quote). The film "City of God" is through this circular narrative structure, reflecting the cycle of crime and violence, to show the chaos and turmoil in Rio de Janeiro, the city of God. The use of non-linear narrative structure can turn the plot of single-line narrative into magic. This structure is also adopted), the non-linear narrative of "City of God" is more advanced, with so many characters and long time span, the plot is scattered but not chaotic, deliberate but not conventional. The director uses this non-linear narrative structure to highlight the cycle and reincarnation of sin in the City of God. At the same time, the film adopts documentary methods. In the film, the bully dies and the film ends, but the sins of the city of God are still being staged.
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