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Trudie 2021-10-19 09:48:29

In 1943, there was a famine in Henan, and the people were hungry like ants, and the authorities took care of them. Wang Yunsheng, the editor-in-chief at the time, personally wrote the article after the report of the quasi-published "Yu Disaster Records", so there was the famous "Looking at Chongqing, Reading the Central Plains". Regardless of the background of "Ta Kung Pao", Wang used his stubborn and stoic character to pick up a great article. As the metaphor of the rafters, it is nothing more than the same.

Today, the mood behind "Look..., Read..." is more cast in the tears and choking of local officials. The crying face is not necessarily just to gain sympathy. The people are suffering, don't you know how to do it, it's a different matter.

Another interesting fact is that it took more than 50 years to go from "the world is the same as the hot and cold" of co-narration of brotherhood to "the world is the same as the hot and cold" of mutual stakeholders. And the change from the unity of Asia, Africa and Latin America to the vigilance of Latin America may only take more than 20 years. In the official white papers and the desks of mainstream economists, Latin America has gradually become a plot in Zhiguai novels. Those vigilant and startled eyes seemed to be deliberately forgetting, how many deep and hard marks have been carved on this land from the years of being called brothers and sisters.

Back to the topic, let’s talk about "City without a Master". In the slum area of ​​Rio de Janeiro, a chicken witnessed his companion being cut, watered, shaved, and bloodletted, and then fled in surprise. As the camera turned, a group of children started chasing the falling rations, each holding a gun in his hand. The story begins like this.

The slum is called the City of God. In the eyes of city people, this is a forbidden zone for God, guns are rampant, and there are only two destinies in every face: being a good citizen, waiting to be robbed; being a robber, waiting for vendetta. Bloodthirsty and power, as well as derivative sex, drugs, and black gold, are not so much that they have perfected some people, but rather a kind of inheritance. Life here spirals downward, and good people are involved in vendettas for no reason, and eventually die at the guns of another good citizen swallowed by hatred. The leader of the gang who tried to escape from the gang drank a bomb and died, and the scene of traveling with the United States is finally a dream. Behind the firearms trade, the police officers only used profit as the head of the buying and being bought. The narrator of the story achieved his long-cherished wish to become a photojournalist by taking pictures of gangsters. What awaits him is endless vendettas and young children who are pointing their guns at the sky, smiling, and swearing at each other. The lean black kid said, "I take drugs, I rob and kill, I am a real man." This kind of dream-like illusion has always been shrouded in the sky above the city of God, and God turned his face away, looking at the blooming flowers of Rio de Janeiro, and he was drunk.

Perhaps, there will never be a abandoned city, only a figure of self-abandonment. But the reality is that those who once insisted on the good people eventually fell into the cycle of killing and being killed, and no one was self-sufficient. If we put ourselves in the place, we might not think that self-abandonment is a possibility.

The technique and arrangement of the film are all top-notch, and it is worth seeing. When the subtitles "adapted from the real story" were played at the end of the story, there was a sudden shock. Those seemingly out-of-reach dark skins, deep ribs, guns and drugs that can be seen everywhere are actually covered by our great discourse system in three words, called Latin.

Putting away the prejudice, in a sense, there is not Dingzhou with a gun, and a bloody Zhong catching turtles.

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Extended Reading
  • Ludie 2021-10-20 18:58:57

    Face blindness attacked, and it took 20 minutes to distinguish the face.

  • Katlynn 2021-10-20 18:59:20

    outstanding! Oscar finally did something right!

City of God quotes

  • Zé Pequeno: [after snorting a line and seeing Knockout Ned's photograph in one of the center pages of a newspaper] Motherfucker!I'm the boss around here but he gets his picture in the paper! Have you found my photo in there?

  • [first lines]

    Zé Pequeno: Whoa, the chicken ran away. Get that chicken, dude!