"It takes a long time to change the status quo, the system is difficult to smash, and there are many innocent people who have to sacrifice their lives."
"Elite Force 2 Enemy Current" Douban 8.7, released in Brazil in 2010. ( 115 minutes (Brazil) / 95 minutes (Chinese mainland) - deleted version)
The sequel to the Elite Forces series. It tells the story of the police forces of malfeasance led by Rocca who take over the slums, they fish the people, they are bloody and brutal, and they trigger a series of corrupt acts in the system, and the leader of the elite forces, Captain Naximento, is involved in and confronts them.
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Compared with the thrill of the previous work "countering violence with violence", the sequel is more acute in its criticism of the system, and the pattern has become larger, which not only exposes the corruption in the police and bandit struggle, but also more deeply reflects the social reality of Brazil.
It provides an in-depth analysis of how entrenched corruption persists in the system, and it is poverty that commits crimes. Or corruption? Is the reason for the huge gap between rich and poor in slums institutional or criminal? And how does chaos cause? I believe it will also bring you a lot of thinking.
It's not so much a crime drama film with a "political element" in it, but rather a political indictment cloaked in a movie.
At the same time, it also tells a "awakening and struggle of idealists"
In 2007, Elite Troops, which tells the story of the Rio de Janeiro police fighting drug gangs in the slums, was released in Brazil and won the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Three years later, the sequel was created by the original team and continued to revolve around the hero, The Leader of the Elite Force, Naximento, and since the release of the film, the audience and the media have received rave reviews, and Naximento is regarded as a hero by the people.
In 2010, the film set several all-time Brazilian box office records.
Its cumulative box office revenue reached 102.6 million reais (about 400 million yuan), surpassing the 102.3 million reais set by Avatar in Brazil, becoming the highest-grossing film in Brazilian history.
At the same time, the cumulative audience of the film also exceeded 11 million. It became the most viewed film in Brazilian history.
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In Brazil, where guns, drug dealers, crime, and corruption have become the norm, the chaos of the system has made it a little difficult for those in power to deal with, so they have established a special force that transcends the system, "BOPE", the skull. That is, elite troops. They have absolute power, power, loyalty, and integrity. They hate corruption, crime and all other evil forces, and help the system solve many problems.
Today, Captain Naximento still dominates the actions of the elite troops, and he has always believed that what the elite troops he leads are doing is just behavior, and as long as drug crimes are eliminated, corruption will lose its breeding ground and destroy itself.
But reality did not develop in the direction of his ideals, and the tentacles of the system were wider than he thought.
Elite Force 2 no longer focuses as much of the camera as the previous game on intense battle scenes, and Captain Nascimito's main opponent has changed from a drug dealer to a politician in the system with a mask of hypocrisy, and these seemingly less threatening enemies have brought more heavy damage to society.
The film's opening credits review the main plot of the previous game, continuing the style of Captain Naximento's previous interpretation of the plot, while setting up two plot lines, one line telling the awakening and struggle of Captain Naximento in the system. The other tells the story of faraga, a leftist intellectual, and Captain Nacimento from confrontation to reconciliation.
Four years ago, there was a riot at the heavily guarded Bangu No. 1 prison. Prisons are full of vicious drug dealers who have saved their lives by bribing the government, and ironically, they are extremely evil, and in prison, they still wantonly fight for turf for gangs and factions, and even fierce firefights.
Elite troops intervened to quell the riot, and in the confusion, Captain Montemimento ordered Captain Matthias to shoot decisively to solve the drug dealer leader.
This time, however, there was an uproar, with faraga, a leftist intellectual dressed in humanist guises, witnessing the action and trumpeting in the media about the inhumane behavior of elite forces.
The elite forces saved him, but put themselves in a difficult situation.
For a time, public opinion was rife, and the so-called Bill of Rights had high-level politicians discussing the dismissal of Captain Nasciento, but the people praised the elite forces for this operation, believing that the elite troops had made the right move in the face of the most heinous drug dealers. Under pressure from the people, the governor sought out Captain Matthias as a "scapegoat" to remove him from his post, and Captain Naximento was promoted to deputy head of the intelligence department, responsible for all eavesdropping matters in Rio.
At this time, this black net of the system began to gradually appear.
Nasciento stuck to his ideas of fighting a corrupt system by fighting drug crimes. Because of his work, he divorced his wife, who took his son to marry now his rival politician, Fraga.
But he didn't want to get involved in these things. Instead, he focused more on his work, using the power of his position to expand the elite force and make it stronger, and he set the wheel on this brutal war machine. The drug crimes that swept through Rio made drug dealers feel frightened, and soon the drug crime forces in Rio were basically swept away.
According to the captain's vision, the slums lost the drug trade, the drug dealers had no income, the malfeasant police had no source of corruption, and the corrupt system would disintegrate.
However, reality has not developed in the ideal direction.
His elite troops were put to good use!
Captain Nascimito led the elite forces to wipe out most of the drug dealers. The militia, led by the malfeasance police officer Lobcha, could effortlessly take over the slums and begin more brutal rule.
Television, internet access, all kinds of business, covering all aspects of life in the slums, every household needs to pay protection fees, they can also lend usury, ignore the law, and trample on life at will.
The malfeasance police found that without this "middleman" of drug dealers, they could earn more and pay no taxes on illegal gains.
The civilian population has nowhere to speak out, only to submit, otherwise they will be subjected to bloody reprisals.
Malfeasance police officers, cloaked in the guise of legality, began a glamorous crime.
The bloody rule of the malfeasance police in the slums, the elite forces are powerless, and although they have great power, they are ultimately a product of the system, and it is difficult to declare war on the system.
In addition, the behavior of the slum "militia organization" has also attracted the attention of more corrupt forces in the government, politicians have discovered the most valuable thing in the slums - votes, politicians in order to get more votes, and the police dereliction of duty have formed a huge community of corrupt interests, they manipulate media opinion, exclude dissidents, use elite troops to open the way for themselves, and for the opponents in it, it is the persecution of unscrupulous means.
In an operation to expand its territory, the malfeasant police forces disguised themselves as drug dealers attacked the Tanki Police Station, stole police equipment and manipulated public opinion to blame local drug dealers. Andrei Matthias was reassigned to the elite forces to obtain the support of the elite forces in the elimination of drug dealers.
The Nascimento-backed eavesdropping service did not find out from the 300-hour surveillance recording that the drug dealer had planned to attack the police station, but the governor ordered Roca to act immediately, so Locha and the SWAT officers raided the drug dealer the next day, and Matthias, when interrogating the drug dealer leader, failed to ask if they had attacked the police station and became suspicious of Locha, so he was shot and killed by Locha's men when he turned around.
Captain Matthias, who had a passion for blood, finally died under the obscenity of the system.
He was still too young, not deeply involved in the world, and had a passion for blood to be brutally persecuted after being used by the malfeasant police. The media campaign was successful, and the power of corrupt interest groups was expanded.
The public has no idea what's really going on in the Tanky neighborhood. Politicians didn't care about Captain Matthias's death, they just rushed to his funeral.
The eyes of the masses are bright, and the premise is that the history that has occurred is true, that history is covered up, that the truth is not known, and that the eyes of the masses are still "black."
The tragic death of Matthias left Captain Naximento distraught, and the captain vowed to find out the cause of his death.
The derelict police operation in the slums attracted the attention of a group of sober justice journalists, as well as Fraga, a member of parliament who has been silently following the brutal rule of the "militia" in the slums, who knows that the news spread by the media is untrue, the truth is not, and most of the people are still buried in the drums. However, what is needed at the moment is more evidence.
In the course of investigating the collusion of politicians in the slums, the journalist Clara recklessly broke into a militia stronghold with photographers, where posters, flags, and campaign posters for the slum voters were placed, and it was learned that the governor was also involved in the corruption campaign.
Before she and the photographer were arrested and killed by the "militia", she had a phone call with the parliamentarian Flaga to inform her of her discovery, and Captain Nasciento happened to be listening to the call, and a corrupt interest group lurking within the system was slowly emerging.
The actions of the "militia" in the slums began to be revealed, and Captain Nascimito keenly realized that the next person to be persecuted would be Flaga, and he immediately set off for The residence of Fraga and his ex-wife to discuss the matter, and sure enough, the killer who assassinated Flaga appeared, and the captain decisively drew his gun and counterattacked, and under his escort, Flaga was not injured.
However, the bullet hit his son.
At that moment, for the first time, the captain's face, which was full of composure and fortitude, was covered with pity and panic.
Looking at his son who was sent to the rescue room, he was heartbroken and could not cry.
Captain Nasciento noticed that the beliefs he had previously held seemed to have collapsed.
As the leader of the elite army, he defended social justice, fought crime, and protected the people from outlaws.
However, the system has eaten him back, hurt his beloved family, killed his former closest comrade-in-arms, Captain Matthias, and pushed him into a desperate situation step by step...
"I have always believed in my life that the police are doing the right thing, and suddenly that belief disappeared and I had no choice but to go head-to-head with the system."
He could no longer hide, and the resentment that had been accumulating in his heart exploded like a magma splash.
This time, he's going to fight back against the system head-on.
He used elite troops to intercept the car of the Director of the Security Bureau, issued him a stern warning, vented his anger, and beat him to the point where he was bleeding profusely;
He confronted the militia that came to assassinate Locha, engaged in fierce fighting in the streets, and he always held military power, and with the assistance of elite troops, he fled;
Using all the evidence of wiretapping he had before, he appeared in court with Lawmaker Fraga in the Legislative Yuan to publicly expose the various ugly crimes of the corrupt police officer Locha, the head of the security department, Guarasi, and even the governor, and most of them were imprisoned.
Narration -
"I attended a public hearing in Flaga and made allegations against the system, I went to state the facts, to express my thoughts, to speak out what I knew, I confessed my faults, the testimony lasted more than three hours, I miserably killed many people, sent many black and gold politicians to prison, because of my words, many bad guys were killed early, this is the largest extermination case in the history of Rio, but the system still stubbornly resists .....
The system can survive at a broken end, it can find another way out, make a comeback, find a new leader, as long as the conditions are favorable, the system will continue to exist...."
Like the meaningful long shot at the end of the film, Nacimito's struggle with the system has not stopped, and there will be many challenges ahead.
In this corrupt system surrounded by all kinds of evil forces, because there are Naximento and such idealistic fighters and sober people like Flaga, the ending is not necessarily dark, and everything begins to become confusing. Because the future is always full of hope.....
"I'll keep fighting, just another way"