Geographically Located in the welcoming region of South America. If someone told you about Brazil, what would be your first reaction? Football Kingdom? Hot beauty? world cup? Or a resort beach that makes people feel very welcoming?
If you think about all of the above, it means that you only see the positive side of Brazil, because these are only the positive images that the Brazilian government is trying to show in the international arena. What you don't know is that on the other side of the government's unregulated side is a world of darkness, violence, bloodshed and gunfights.
Michael Jackson, the king of world pop music, once wrote a song "They don't care aboutus", the official version of the MV was filmed in the slums of Brazil, and many of the people who appeared in the film were people living in the slums. Interested students can take a look at this Brazilian version of the MV. (It is said that Michael was almost banned by the Brazilian government before filming)
If you don't know About Brazil, look at this "City of God" movie to learn about another side of it that is not known to the public.
The shots that appear in the film are elements of cinematic expression, but in the real world, these scenes will really appear on the streets of Brazil. Drugs, guns, violence, every minute can happen.
A foreign correspondent who was called "milky man" by netizens used the camera to truly record the violent scene of "passers-by being headshots by pistols" on the streets of Brazil.
"City of God" has a rating of 9.0 on Douban, and it is a pity that the high-scoring masterpiece is not to see!
The film is narrated from the perspective of a photographer named Ah Gun, one of the few inhabitants who can freely enter and leave the City of God, because this city of God, which seems to have been forgotten by God, is where he lives. The City of God, in every age, can be exchanged for different to dominate.
If it is divided by the growth line of the, it can be divided into three parts: the three young heroes, the little bully and the little devil head.
If you look at it according to the direction of the story, it can be summarized as: the story of the three young heroes, the story of the little bully as the boss and the story of the revenge of shuai Ned.
However, according to the story line, this film will be easier to sort out the plot.
From beginning to end, the film is aimed at a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This difficult place is always full of violent crime, and there are long times of drug trade and robbery, guns are always present, and the of the City of God are always affecting the peaceful life that the slum dwellers should have.
Although poor, they have guns, guns that cannot be banned, and even the local government does not dare to easily enter this place. In the face of these, the police may change their bags in seconds, and in the eyes of the outside world, this place is a forbidden place that others cannot easily enter.
On the other side of Rio de Janeiro, the bustling capital, is the slum represented by the City of God, poor, chaotic, without electricity, dirt roads, and buses, which is the street impression of the slum under the lens.
In sharp contrast to the great cities of Rio de Janeiro, the government seems to have abandoned this place, and the inhabitants themselves believe that this place in the city of God has been abandoned by God.
Start the story of the Three Heroes:
In the 60s, the three young people living in the City of God, Ah Mao, Ah Jia and Ah Duan, were a "young three heroes" who could play football with a pistol in their hands, they were the objects of worship in the hearts of a group of children, and this photographer named Ah Cannon was the younger brother of Ah Duan, one of the three young heroes.
The gangsters can unscrupulously carry out street robberies with pistols, and they can skillfully escape the police and then continue to repeat their lives.
Robbing rich people every day has become the norm in the lives of this group of little hooligans. However, they only rob and do not kill, and pistols mainly play a role in intimidating others and confronting the police.
However, all this has changed with the fierce shooting of many people in a robbery by Xiao Douzi. This also hints at the growth path of XiaoDouzi, who is about to become the new chaos controller.
In the 60s, the Young Three Heroes disbanded, Ah Mao died, and the era of the Young Three Heroes ended. A new group of from borderless cities has begun to appear.
The story of the little bean who transformed into a little bully:
The time came to the 70s, in addition to the, the City of God had many serious friends who went to school, and Ah Gun was one of them. A cannon who has been interested in photography since childhood, this time has a camera of his own.
In addition to playing and taking pictures together, they also like to smoke marijuana and white powder. To us, it feels like heinous marijuana and white powder, but in their eyes it is just a little fun.
Since the end of the Three Heroes of the Youth, the leader of the new generation of assholes has become a little bully, he is Ah Mao's younger brother, the original Little Bean.
They are gangsters and gangsters, and although their children may only be a few years old, they are little demons who can pick up a pistol and kill people in minutes. They can keep the drug trade and shootings all over the City of God.
Obviously, compared with the robbery cases mainly brought about by the "Three Young Heroes" in the era of the brothers, it is obvious that these "rising stars" are more fierce and tyrannical. The shooting in the hotel a few years ago was actually done by Xiao Douzi, who was only about 8 years old at the time. And One of the three young heroes, Ah Duan, was also shot by Xiao Douzi, and this dead Dumb was Ah Gun's brother.
At the age of 18, xiao Douzi, who named himself "Little Bully", began to plan step by step to become the new boss of the City of God, and he set his sights on a more profitable drug business, using guns and violence to continuously steal the drug business of Black Boy and other small gangsters.
The only remaining territory that has not been robbed belongs to Hongmao, because Hongmao is a friend of Benny, Benny is a very righteous brother, and Benny is the best partner of The Little Bully, so the Little Bully does not move him for the time being.
But the crimes he has committed along the way have made him one of rio's most wanted criminals.
As the times change, so does the lives of the people living in the City of God. The horrors of violence are changing the lives of people in slums.
Little Bean's personality is tyrannical, arrogant and ambitious, and he is completely different from Benny, who grew up with him and is now his deputy. Although Benny is also a member of the gangster gang, he is the kindest and softest person in the gangster.
In the words of the red hair, Benny is the coolest rogue in the City of God.
It was only his later ending, but he was killed because he was too soft-hearted.
Xiao Douzi actually originally walked the criminal life of a juvenile three-hero robbery, and the reason why he changed from robbery to drug trafficking was because he saw that the little gangsters around him who sold drugs were all wearing gold and silver to "get rich", and he also wanted to make a lot of money.
Because Xiao Douzi already felt that the money for robbery was too little compared with drugs and white powder. So he's going to change the way he "makes money."
His life as a drug dealer in the City of God began, with more shootings and killings and more frightening life for ordinary people in the slums.
Killing people, robbing business, changing the name of XiaoDouzi to Little Bully made the people who watched stunned, and almost snatched up the drug business in the city at once. The only remaining red hair gradually became the nemesis of the little bully.
Growing up in the City of God, Ah Cannon knows their criminal life very well, fortunately, Ah Cannon has not become one of the criminals, "out of the mud without staining" is really not easy, he will also take pictures, so he can be a sober bystander, to the outside world people to open the window of sight into the City of God.
Maybe it's the gunfire, the bloodshed and the violence that happen here every day, and even when they see someone die, the people of The City of God don't seem to have much sadness. The City of God is somewhat isolated from the outside world.
But not everyone in the is fierce, And Benny is the most approachable person among drug dealers, even when he is angry, he only shoots to scare and frighten the people around him, rather than really killing people.
In the film, Benny is generous, fashionable, affectionate, and kind-hearted, the exact opposite of Little Bully.
The Little Bully is bent on getting rid of the red hair so that he can become the boss of the City of God completely.
But Benny often advised the bully: Don't always think about killing. The character of Benny is the most enjoyable character in the film that does not feel depressing.
In the words of A cannon: "Benny, the best rogue in the city of God." “
The life of the little bully belongs to the kind of jianghu road to the black, and his goal is to be the boss of the city of God; but Benny is a romantic person who likes music and dancing, and pays more attention to personal life, and Ah Cannon has said that Benny's personality is not suitable for being a jerk.
Especially after Benny made a girlfriend, followed his girlfriend's advice, wanted to live a idyllic happy life, he decided to quit the underworld life with The Little Bully, at his farewell party, Benny did not forget to give a camera to Ah Gun, because he knew that Ah Gun would like to be a photographer.
The tragedy of Benny's fate lies in the fact that when he wants to get better, it is the end of his own fate.
Benny was shot and killed by a small under Hongmao, there was no Benny around, the confrontation between Xiaobawang and Hongmao has been continuing, and Xiaobawang still wants to be the boss.
The third story is the story of The Sharpshooter Commander Ned. Shuai Ned, who had been a soldier and had the title of sharpshooter in the army camp, was also a resident of the City of God.
But now he can only be a bus conductor, he is a very kind person, and even when Ah Gun and his companions want to rob him, Shuai Ned will kindly advise them to study hard so that they can leave the City of God in the future.
Shuai Ned is undoubtedly a righteous gentleman, but when he experiences his wife being violated and hurt by the little bully, his brother being shot by the little bully, and his home being shot by the little bully, anger and hatred become all he has, and he is determined to take revenge on the little bully.
Shuai Ned this character has the most inner contradictions, his heart is righteous and kind, but he also accumulates a deep hatred for the little bully, in order to avenge his family, he chose to join the red hair side of the opposite of the little bully, he gradually changed from the beginning of not accepting the brother to the red hair brother.
It's just that the sharpshooter Shuai Ned is not completely blackened, as soon as he joins the brother gang, he will have to follow them to rob together, and the understanding of the character of Shuai Ned can only be considered that he did all this to avenge. Because the red hair has a gun, there are people, and it is the nemesis of the little bully, the little bully king's power is very large, only by following the red hair, can you kill the little bully.
And because Hongmao is also a gangster, he wants to rob, Shuai Ned has already joined The Redmao's team, can only follow to rob, even if his heart is still unwilling to kill innocent people.
Red Hair and Little Bully officially went to war, making the lives of the people in the slums more chaotic.
The big fire between the two sides attracted the media and the police, only to see the handsome Ned report instead of his own little bully, the boss mentality exploded, he felt that he was the coolest to report it. His men found a photographic A Cannon, who happened to be working at a local newspaper.
Ah Cannon took pictures of Xiao Bawang and his men, and Xiao Bawang's photos were published on the front page of the newspaper, and the of the City of God were finally known to the public in the media.
No real photographer has ever been able to enter the City of God, only Ah Cannon can do. He lived in the City of God, and what seemed to the outside world to happen in the City of God was like a common thing for Ah Gun. He was like a war correspondent who could come and go at any time, recording a shootout with his camera at any time.
In the final firefight, both sides suffered heavy casualties, The Little Bully and the Red Hair were arrested by the police, and Shuai Ned died. The bully is released in a deal with the black police, but is shot and killed by a group of small ghosts who have arrived.
The story of the little overlord in the city of God is over, and a new wave of is about to stage their story.
All of this was recorded by the photographs taken by Ah Cannon at the risk of his life.
If you make a sequel, there should be a lot of watching.
After the old things are replaced, there are soon new things to replace them. "City of God" is very similar in structure to the gangster-themed "Godfather" trilogy, "City of God" is from the "Three Heroes of the Young", to the Little Bully, and then to the Little Devil Heads, and the "Godfather" trilogy is from the first generation of godfathers, to the second generation of godfathers, and then to the third generation of godfathers.
One is a crime theme, and the other is a gangster theme. It's just that one that focuses more on the underworld at the bottom, and one that is more prominent in the realization of the gangster-level underworld.
Both films focus more on the second part, such as the growth history of the little bully and the life of the second generation of godfathers played by Al Pacino, and the third part is a very beginning-ending approach.
Both are good-looking blockbusters, clearly structured and seemingly thoughtless at all.
I like the tone of "City of God", its theme is crime, but the tone used is a little retro and a little warm, and the sense of depression is alleviated a lot.
If you've seen City of God first, don't forget to check out the Godfather trilogy, in short, no matter which of the two movies you watch first, the other one comes with its own charm waiting for you.
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