movie title is very direct. A city forgotten by God, longing to return to God's embrace. However, that place is not to say that change is impossible. Just saying, that place is anarchic.
Crowds still need to be controlled. Crowds live together and there are many ways to lose. The basic order in primitive society is very close to such an environment. With a gun, it is easy to rob and kill. As for selling drugs, it's a violent place and a very suitable career.
In a specific environment, we have to understand that mentality, it is normal. A place has its own way of being. By showing the way of life, the film intends to highlight the social forms behind it. In such a land, a little black boy can easily grow into an all-rounder in the underworld.
In any case, this movie is too close to reality, except that it shows the form of a virtual movie, reflecting the content a hundred times more serious and possibly a hundred times crueler than this. One shot after another, spanning decades, the movie doesn't even give you much time to breathe, let you feel for those innocent people and mourn for misfortune. You've entered the next scene full of guns and tension. The young age of the crime makes me want to go more and more. Anti-violence must start from a child. Of course, this is nonsense.
I think that's highly symbolic. The two groups of people faced each other, and in the middle was a half-old boy with a camera. He could be knocked out at any time. It couldn't be more normal, it couldn't have been more boring.
The reason why I think anti-violence is nonsense is because the most important thing is to change the social environment. Look at the movie, when the police go to that kind of place, they are all in unison. I went to look for information and wanted to see how the city in the social context was forgotten. This is the case, the Brazilian background of the Brazilian piece. Rio de Janeiro's slums. In the 1960s Brazil began a housing construction program known as the "City of God" to resettle the poor, and in the early 1980s this area became the most dangerous area in Rio de Janeiro. This is a "god-forgotten corner", and the government has completely ignored it.
Why doesn't the government ask about it? This is often the case. When the situation becomes uncontrollable and becomes a headache, just throw it away. Such a place would become a city of evil.
Every creature that appears in the movie, you're thinking, maybe dead in a few minutes. No breathing, no movement, a corpse. Everyone has no choice in life to live in. In many cases, human beings are difficult to solve the problems caused by themselves. I don't know why, but I am reminded of group irrationality. Of course, this is purely the wisdom of philosophers and economists. Everyone's calculation of their own situation and benefit costs often leads to collective irrationality. From the perspective of a single person, the proliferation of guns, killing, selling drugs, and revenge are all necessary ways to survive and develop. But together, they form a filthy "city of God" that even God will abandon. A region caught in a vicious circle is like a person caught in a vicious circle. There are lesions in the center of the brain. Have to operate from there.
In fact, there is no need to care too much about the specific relationship and fate of the characters in the movie. For places and people caught in a vicious circle, the power of the mighty hand of God is the only fantasy of salvation. For example, the President of Brazil said that after watching the film, he felt that he would
"change social security policy". It's really a virtue that the movie has this effect.
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