The film is narrated by 12 police officers and 1 psychiatrist
According to them, the narrative content is true
Fragments of statements about police officers and psychiatrists have been destroyed
These are the only two subtitles at the beginning of the film, and they also lay the emotional tone of the whole movie.
As if to tell the audience watching the movie —
The story of the film is based on real events,
But some people don't want us to see it.
Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city in Brazil.
Located in the southeast coastal area of Brazil, bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast, the coastline is 636 kilometers long, and it is hot all year round.
Once the capital of Brazil, it is now an important gateway to Brazil.
The Statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, also known as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Here is full of desire: beaches, beauties, houses, cars, tickets...
On the other side of the city,
Rio de Janeiro is again home to some of the most crowded slums in South America.
Those that can only be seen in American blockbusters,
Guns, crime, hormones, violence, killing, impulsiveness...
Slums in reality are playing out all the time.
This is the sinful paradise that was signed with Satan.
It's not that there are no police here.
But it would be foolish to trust the police and rush into slums to enforce the law.
The police are also afraid of death,
What's more, even if they are not afraid of death, they still have children to support in their families.
It is not a good deal to take a life for that meager salary.
So the police have more part-time jobs —
In this corrupt environment, every Friday, they will go up the mountain to collect "protection fees",
The here are not afraid of them, but they still willingly pay the protection fee, afraid that they are not afraid, but no one wants to clash with the police.
Putting time into conflict with the police is also bad for "business",
Not to mention, no one likes to fight.
In Brazil, if you were also a police officer with a meager salary, and everyone was corrupt, and you had a family of children waiting for you to raise, what would you do if it were you?
The answer is chilling.
So in such a big environment,
Brazil establishes bope project,
It was created to intervene when ordinary police officers are unable to control a situation.
From its sign, there is no doubt about what happens after entering the slums -
Bottomless enforcement.
Sadly, the situation in Brazil is always spiraling out of control.
In Rio de Janeiro in 1997, the Pope abruptly announced a visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and set out for the vicinity of the slums.
If you are the mayor of Rio de Janeiro,
Naturally, you also want the Pope to arrive safely and then send him back safely.
Naturally, the "slums" that could erupt in conflict at any time would be cleared before the Pope arrived.
- The police did nothing, and the task was naturally handed over to the BOPE project.
Nasciento, the commander of the BOPE project, is also the head of the project.
But the entanglement of the family gave him the idea of taking a back seat.
The matter of fighting, killing and killing will be left to the young people to do well,
But before Naciento could retire, he had to grow up to his successor.
He met two hot-blooded young people who were "angry".
Netto and Matthias are reserve officers at the police station.
Yet in incompetent and corrupt and unjust places, they are disheartened.
They are two of the world's most passionate young people,
Just like those graduates who just graduated with big dreams,
They also hoped that reform would change something, but in the face of darkness and reality, they could not change anything.
Those who are born elite, who are keen to show mercy for big things,
Never really in the dark, never seeing the truth on the balcony of a luxury villa.
Nettour and Matthias joined THE POEC through layers of selection in a hopeless manner.
And Nascimito had longed for these two young men to really be able to compare what to do.
But now Nacimento has no choice: Neto, in a gunfight, is shot dead by gangsters.
A slum killing is inevitable,
And Matthias is bound to complete the transformation and take the first step towards the destruction of the system.
Be swallowed up by evil or face the violence of BOPE.
On August 17, 2007, "Elite Force" was released in Rio de Janeiro, but it was met with great pressure and resistance from the "outside world".
It was forced to take down shelves a few days after the release.
Until October 12, 2007,
Under the clamor of the whole people, "Elite Force" was allowed to be officially screened nationwide.
But in fact, before that, the film crew had received much attention from the media because of the sensitivity of the subject matter.
This kind of film that directly attacks the shortcomings of the police naturally makes the police rarely unhappy,
Lashing out at incompetent media, indifferent intellectuals, interest groups,
In turn, almost all the crusades of the bourgeoisie extended to the filming process of the film.
This makes the entire filming process of "Elite Force" extremely difficult,
In an interview at the Berlin International Film Festival, the director said:
"We had staff kidnapped, guns stolen, police raids on slums and almost ruined the entire filming plan"
And in the two months of the removal,
Pirated CDs of movies have long been spread throughout the streets,
According to incomplete statistics, more than 3 million pirated CDs were sold in Brazil alone, far exceeding the theater online attendance.
If it were not for the two months of forced removal, the box office of "Elite Force" would be far more than 400 million yuan.
Fortunately, the sequel "Elite Force 2: Enemy Current" three years later far surpassed the first one, and the Chinese mainland also introduced the film
66,406 people gave a high score of 8.7, better than 97% crime movies and better than 98% action movies.
Although the film sequel has improved, it seems that the smog of Brazil has never left.
BOPE is also still a law enforcement method of countering violence with violence:
Slaps, plastic covers, insults, shootings, elbows...
Yes, this is BOPE, and they were never outside the independent system.
Their sophisticated equipment and brutal training are all for law enforcement and they are ruthless in crime.
Solve violence with violence, use bullets to conscious bullets, and solve the balance of blood with blood,
It has never been a cure for the symptoms, not the root cause, and under the bottomless violence,
Bope is no longer the embodiment of hope, it turns and walks to the other side of the darkness.
BOPE's violent law enforcement,
Let the children in the slums from a young age be taught by adults that the police are "bad people" and more violent and inhuman people,
Students from the upper class,
When she was unhappy about tutoring her children's grades, she never found that many children actually had great problems with their eyesight.
Here, both the good guys and the bad guys are labeled one by one.
Look at the single and bipolar of things,
Rio de Janeiro, which was originally a holiday paradise, is also full of hatred and bloodshed.
Fairness and justice have long since become commodities that can be sold at clear prices.
Those high-class young masters and beautiful ladies seem to be full of love,
Children are often warmed up in the slums, but this is only a way to facilitate their access to "medicines".
The police have not felt any remorse or change in their inaction.
They also come from the bottom, they also need to support their families, and they have also been angry, but the anger is:
'You bunch of glass, cowards!' You're the ones who fund everything here, and in the end you're going to get us to wipe our butts and solve the problem.
——From the protagonist's rant at the addict.
Who can solve the problem of slums?
Rely on the issue of justice? Or is it up to the people themselves?
Or maybe when the system begins to fail, violence can only be sanctioned with violence?
In this incompetent system, people can do nothing.
Either go to another abyss on the back of the abyss, or simply join the abyss.
In Brazil, as the famous director Walter Cyrus describes:
"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 for too long by Brazil's ruling class;
Proper health and education services have never been provided here. In fact, the only thing that is adequately provided is the bullet. ”
Sometimes, I often think,
Under such difficult and difficult conditions, Brazilian filmmakers can make such excellent films,
On the other hand, our filmmakers are still busy making "Qiong Yao operas" and "soap operas on bad streets".
Those front-line filmmakers still produce less "love anesthetics", and don't waste the good theme of "war dramas" with greasy.
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