City of No Owners.
The film has no protagonist.
If there is one, it is a residential construction plan called the city of god in the 1960s to resettle the poor. In the early 1980s, this area became the most dangerous zone in Rio de Janeiro.
The narrator is a person named Rocket.
Violence, blood, drugs, greed, embezzlement, betrayal. Almost all the ugliness is undoubtedly exposed.
"Holding the dream of searching for the most pure land, people came to the city of heaven."
The red-tiled houses looked so orderly. However, under this neat shell is unexpected darkness.
Robbery, looting, gunfights, fights, desires.
Blood. There seemed to be a layer of blood covering the screen. Killing is like hemp.
The city of God, lost by God, lost its patron saint.
It feels like Pandora has opened a magic box.
The gun is like a daily necessities here. The sound of two gunshots is not surprising at all.
The children here are sensitive and fragile. I am immersed in sin every day, and I am increasingly immersed in the killing. Even the eyes are bitter.
Can't see the innocent smiling face, can't see the innocence that should be, let alone the innocence.
But you can see.
A child who was just over ten years old, holding a gun, smiling, calm and composed, pulled the trigger at others, and then laughed. You can see in his eyes, it's like hell fire is burning. He was so open and despised, that life that seemed worthless.
Then you can slowly see him grow up with the same smile as always with the gunfire in his hand.
Life licked and swelled the bloody air.
The girlfriend saw her boyfriend being shot to death, but she could only cry.
The robbed person went to the street before he could argue.
There are no bloody shots in the film, but you can feel the blood flowing horizontally and continuously, filling the entire screen all the time.
cruel. Very dazzling.
You can see it too.
The eldest of a group of children is in their teens. They sit together and discuss. Without expression, the most profitable thing is drugs. Those, in the eyes of others, will not jump out of the child's mouth.
But you look down, all this is not so surprised.
Cocaine, marijuana. The anesthetic seems to come at your fingertips. One serving, ten servings. Ten grams, one hundred grams.
Passed between the immature hands one after another.
I don't know why, just look at Siago and Benny when measuring the size. I feel like crying.
Suddenly at that moment I felt a little simple.
It feels like some of the people there are like chickens appearing at the beginning of the film.
He watched how his companion was killed. Powerless.
Want to escape. But there is nowhere to escape.
The film is full of ugliness, but the soundtrack has always been extremely easy.
Against the strong background. The grief spread. Like the tears of God.
The film was only halfway through, and I remembered the dialogue.
"Why do you live in this heavenly city abandoned by God?" I
suddenly remembered the sentence: Eli, eli, lema Sabachthani. God, God, why did you abandon me?
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