this movie earlier. At the time, I thought it was the book played by Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan...
After seeing the faces of black children, I first suspected that I had made the wrong film, and then I recalled the original book called "City of Angels", FT...
But it was a mistake, and I found a good movie.
There is no God in the city of God, and the people in the city of God do not believe in God.
In the 1960s, Brazil started a project called "God" In the early 1980s, this area became the most dangerous area in Rio de Janeiro.
The government adopted a completely indifferent attitude. At this time, although the young people of the City of God were wandering on the fringes of society, But they are still willing to obey the strict house rules. In the 1970s and 1980s, these low-level teenagers began to gather into gangs, organized large-scale crime and drug arms trade, and controlled the entire community, becoming the real "China".
This is some information obtained by GOOGLE on the Internet.
There is no protagonist in the story, but there is a bystander and narrator-Rocket. At the
beginning of the film, there is a scene where a gangster confronts four policemen with guns, which is very shocking.
Then the story is instantly blocked . Pull back more than ten years ago.
It started with the Tender trio. (60s in the city of God) Bystander Rocket is the younger brother of one of the members. The
Tender trio used guns to rob a gas truck, but they didn't kill anyone, just The driver threatened: "Don't lose your life for the boss's money". While grabbing the money, it also brought gas to some residents in the area. The organized crime at this time included some knights or Robin Hood's Nature. Until one time, the three decided to rob the Motel to get more money. Although no one in the trio had ever shot, all the passengers in the Motel were dead when the police arrived the next day. So the three were covered Unrequited injustice, hiding everywhere, in the end either disappeared or was beaten to death by the police.
This is just the prologue.
The real bosses in the story are Benny and Li'Z, who grew up later. These two are the younger brothers(s) of the boss of the trio.
In fact, no one thought that Li'Z, who was ten years old at the time, was a criminal The murderer who committed the monstrous crime of the Motel was armed with a pistol given to him by his brother. The original intention was to let him let go of the wind. When he saw the police, he signaled to the glass window. Who knew that he had tricked his brother away, and then took the pistol. He rushed into the store and killed everyone like a toy.
Later, until he was 18, all his life was killing and robbing, and the methods became more and more cruel. No one in the city dared to mess with him.
Again, ambition is inflated , People's greed is always endless. Seeing that there are drug dealers making a fortune next to them, I thought that I would try it myself when I had no capital. With a gun in my hand, I controlled half of it in one morning. A business in an urban area.
Come out and mess around, and it will be paid back sooner or later. In the end, Benny was beaten to death by his enemy at the farewell banquet. Li'Z was rescued by Bai Daoli's brothers after the two gangs fought each other, but he was finally killed by a group of teenagers. As a bystander, Rocket witnessed the changes of the City of God over the years, and because he could easily approach Li'Z
to take pictures, he found a photojournalist in the editorial department of the publishing house. Work. After a few years, I wrote a book called "City of God " .
The above is the outline of the story. The following is the details. In the
city of God, good people can become bad
.
A man who kills and takes pleasure in his business thought that his sense of accomplishment had been fully satisfied in the fight, but when his brother Benny had a girlfriend and told him to find a woman to settle down too, he suddenly felt It was a failure.
There was only violence and cruelty in his life, and nothing else.
So, one day, a beautiful and sexy little girl who was disdainful of him happened to meet on the street. In his anger, he saw that she was a righteous "good person" D's wife.
There is a sharp contrast between handsome and upright good people and wretched and murderous bad people. Naturally, the former is more attractive in front of women.
Unfortunately, this is the city of God, in front of guns, what can you do?
Li'Z is in front of D's He raped his wife in front of him. He shot her and trampled him under his feet.
Without a gun in his hand, the sharpshooter in the former military camp could only sit at home and suffer the loss of his dignity as a man and what he failed to do. Responsibility.
Li'Z just left, and when he turned around, he thought why not just kill him? So he started screaming in front of D's house.
D was hugged by his family at home, and he couldn't let him go out, he would die if he went out.
D Li'Z's younger brother found a knife, don't go out and talk to him. He turned around for a moment, took out the knife and stabbed Li'Z, but unfortunately, the 11-year-old's life was wiped out by more than 20 guns. Li 'The Z gang fired shots at D's house. Then swaggered to the enemy to "talk" business.
Uncle, dead; brother, dead.
D's life is full of hatred and anger from today.
Take a gang The gun dropped by the members, he found Li'Z, and a fierce gun battle broke out. The sharpshooter was a sharpshooter after all, but no one would have expected that the sharpshooter's gun would be stained with innocent blood in the end.
For revenge, D took refuge in another The gang, because there is no way to go, people in Li'Z all over the city are looking for him. The stubborn and upright D still insists on his belief: "I am not a gangster. I do not kill innocent people." Rogue, okay, the whole city is catching you, only here is safe, only here we can protect you. And, in the city of God, no one is innocent."
"I have my own principles, I do not kill innocents. "
Before D insisted, saving one life after another from Carrot.
But gradually, it is necessary to understand that there are exceptions to the principle. Carrot killed a security guard who aimed at D during a bank robbery.
Gradually, exceptions become principles. Another time, during a bank robbery, a security guard rushed out. Without thinking, D raised his hand and killed him.
It was this time that a Time bomb.
At the end, the two gangs fought each other, and a child of his own gang fell. D stepped forward to take care of him and said to stand up. At the moment when he turned around, he was shot through the chest by a cold gun. Poor D still doesn't know how What happened was dead.
It turned out that the child who was on the ground was the child of the security guard who was beaten to death by D. In the
city of God, bad people have no chance to get better.
Women have the power to make men settle down, no matter what this is How stubborn a man used to be, give your all, he will give you hope, because you are his baby.
Benny is one of the most popular bosses in town, from top to bottom, from police to prisoners, from priests To the gangsters, they are his friends. He used to follow Li'Z around the city and shoot and kill the bad guys, but that was before. There is still a trace of humanity in Benny's heart. He also pursues fashion and wears bright clothes. Brand-name clothes go in and out of discos, sell marijuana, and sing and dance quietly. After having a girlfriend, he hates killing people.
Sometimes he just wants to sigh about the power of women. When Benny is persuaded by his girlfriend, he decides not to wash his hands. Come on , two people go to the northwest to buy a ranch, let the sheep go to watch the sunrise, and live a happy life. At the
farewell banquet, Benny invited hundreds of people of all kinds, everyone danced and sang. Everything was beautiful. It
was robbed . Blacky, who was on the ground, came to seek revenge. Taking advantage of the intoxicating atmosphere of the disco, he shot while Li'Z and Benny were fighting for the camera.
Benny died like this.
The story is the same as that of the boss of the Tender trio Death is very similar. It was also caught and beaten to death when his girlfriend was about to leave.
Probably this is called karma, and there is no escape.
Children in the city of God
Doing drugs requires a superficially stable environment, so that the police will not come to harass often, so gradually, half of the city has become the world of Li'Z, where no one dares to act recklessly and shoot. It looks very peaceful, Robbery and other things have been curbed, because anyone who is disobedient will be shot
.
, smashing, making a living.
The area is unstable, the boss can't sit still, he found two shorties, one was crippled, the other was killed.
I remember when they were arrested, they were discussing: "There is no future for robbery. The only way out is to do drugs and play guns like Li'Z."
What a lofty and promising kid.
At the end, Li'Z "recruited new" and called the shorties over because he was afraid After a while, there were not enough people in the firefight, and one person fired a gun. Later, he was released by Bai Dao's friends, and more than a dozen little dwarfs came from all directions and surrounded him. He didn't have time to ask: "What are you doing."
Bang, bang bang , bang bang bang bang, bang bang bang bang
~~~~~~ The most murderous boss in the city of God also died.
Then a group of children went out to play. "Oh, I saw the guy playing marbles across the street corner. I'm not happy, I'm going to beat him to death tomorrow."
They are not born devils, but the city of God is hell, and no angels can be born in hell.
The whole film is in terms of storytelling, artistry, cinematography, connection and other aspects. It is an excellent film for review. The
pacing is not slow, engaging, the transition is natural and the plot is real.
The protagonist of the story, as some online reviews say, is not any one of the characters, but the whole community of the City of God. The
group and the The environment will cause changes in individuals. As mentioned above, good people will become bad people, and bad people can’t become good if they want to. You can be a hooligan. I open one eye and close the other for some reason.
Also as Carrot said, in the city of God, no one is innocent. The way for rich people to accumulate wealth will not be very clean. Not to mention poor people, the poor living environment forces people to have nowhere to go, choose to commit crimes, and break the law .But after that, there is a habit of crime. After the first time, even if you can live a good life, this road will continue.
In comparison, the poachers in Hoh Xil are better because they rarely kill people.
Others Some comments I have interspersed in the story, please take your time to read.
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