"Elite Troops": Intractable and intractable diseases cannot be redeemed

Hunter 2021-12-15 08:01:09

(Zhening Written in March 2008)
Anyone who has watched the movie "City of God" has a shocking understanding of the conditions in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so there is no more instigation here. Compared with the cruel images given by the movie, the reality is even more embarrassing-"More than 40,000 people die in violence in Brazil every year". In this crazy country, life is like a stubble and not respected. The city of God was filmed back then. The slum children who were used at the time were killed in the subsequent gang rush shortly after participating in the film. Unlike "City of God", which focuses on a group of young drug dealers who grow up in "a corner forgotten by God," "Elite Force" focuses the camera on Rio de Janeiro's police and BOPE, the special police military operation unit.
The film is very satirical and realistic. It reproduces the dark side of the Brazilian police and justice, as well as the hypocrisy of rich volunteers. The voice-over at the beginning tells the audience that in Brazil, peace is fragile. If you dream of police rushing It would be a big mistake to enter the violent slums to enforce the law. Not only that, "In Brazil, if you are a policeman, your salary is very low, and you work in a corrupt environment, then you will be violent" (the film director Jos Padiha), so , The audience saw some extremely corrupt police officers.
The high-level police reached a deal with well-armed gangs, collected protection fees on time, and ignored their drug trafficking, gun sales, prostitution control and other activities; due to system problems, every police officer of a certain level should bring his own trailer. To deal with traffic problems and wait for an opportunity to blackmail, secondly, there is no need to pay high user fees to the towing department; once a life case occurs, various police officers shirk each other's responsibilities and transport the corpses to areas that are not their own responsibility, so there is a strange "corpse grabbing" The phenomenon of “luck”; the logistics staff of the police station casually “fill the good with the old” and blatantly take away public resources to fill their own pockets; as for drinking “Overlord beer” on the street and grabbing protection fees, that’s really a piece of cake... Because of the abuse of power, corruption, and inaction in the police department, the government established the BOPE, a special police military operation force, to combat drug trafficking, killings, gun proliferation and other major crimes.
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are good police officers who are honest and have a sense of justice, such as the captain of BOPE in the film Nascimento, and the two fledgling boys Neto and Matias. Neto and Matias, who grew up together, became preparatory police officers. However, in a police station where corruption, procrastination, serious bureaucracy, freedom and discipline, and no justice at all, they have been repeatedly disappointed with their ambitions. After an action to combat violence, they are determined to join BOPE. Captain Nascimento conducted "non-human" intensive training on them and followed them closely. The reason why the captain is so concerned about "passing, helping, and leading" is because he, who is already a father, intends to "retire from the rivers and lakes", no longer participate in dangerous military operations, and wants to find a successor among the newcomers.
Choosing a successor is difficult. In the eyes of the captain, Neto is brave and brave. The disadvantage is that he is too impulsive. Matias seems to be calm but often hesitant and lacks decisiveness. If the two can be merged into one and take all the advantages, then It couldn’t be more ideal. However, the reality did not leave the captain with the chance to pick and choose. In an accident, Neto, who replaced Matias to give glasses to children in the slum area, was killed by a gang. This change made Matias guilty and made the captain heartache. They decided to do it. Neto revenge... The
reality of Brazil involved in the film is not limited to the shortcomings of the police. The widening gap between the rich and the poor is also one of the factors that make Brazil fall into this situation. The wealthy young ladies of the upper class seem to be very caring and often Going in and out of the slums to help poor people, but in fact, this kind of "kind action" is a more convenient way for them to obtain drugs, and they have never felt that their behavior is wrong, and it is precisely because they are angry with the illegal actions of the police. The upper class's addiction to and dependence on drugs has directly or indirectly led to more crimes.
French scholar Karin Bart commented on the film, “We witnessed two hours of extreme violence: forcible intrusion and rain of bullets, and learned that most people may not know that killing the poor is also part of Brazil’s national policy.” This kind of comment should be familiar to the audience. The producer of "City of God" and the famous Brazilian director Walter Sellers also said: "Don't expect mercy and redemption. There is no such thing in the city of God. It describes a world where people have been forgotten by Brazil’s ruling class for too long; the country has never provided adequate health and education services. In fact, the only thing the country adequately provides is bullets.”
Because of the sensitivity of the subject matter. The film has attracted much media attention from the beginning of its shooting. This attention has to be given by the obstruction of the Brazilian police. Due to various uninvited policies, the Brazilian police has been criticized by the media. It was a direct attack on the ills of the police, which made the police, who have always been bullish, "unfortunate". Therefore, the filming process was extremely difficult, which can be described as "enemy". The director said that the police had blocked their shooting plan, and at the same time, criminal gangsters did not. Let them go, "Some of our staff were kidnapped, guns were stolen, and the police raided slums, almost destroying the entire shooting plan..."
In this film that won the Golden Lion Award at the 58th Berlin Film Festival, The audience can see the shadows of some classic films in the past, which may have something to do with director Jos Padiha's appreciation of Martin Scorsese's work. Although the story of the film is fictitious, many of the plots are based on interviews between the director and the Brazilian police and a police psychologist in reality. Of course, the processing of light and shadow techniques is inevitable. Although the overall effect of the film is not as shocking as the "City of God", it does have a sense of reality, but because of the many branches in the description and the superficial characterization, it is easy to cause a sense of fatigue and boring watching the movie. .
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Elite Squad quotes

  • Police oficer: [a popular saying about BOPE] "Dagger to the skull and nothing to the wallet."

  • Capitão Nascimento: Mr. 02, you'll never make it through this course, you know why? It's not because you are fucking weak and have no fiber. It's because you're a crooked cop, Mr. 02, and to wear this badge

    [taps the skull badge]

    Capitão Nascimento: you gotta have character. You don't belong here, Mr. 02, you belong with the hookers and the pimps, Mr. 02. You belong with the abortion clinics. Crooked cops don't join BOPE, Mr. 02.