Between heaven and hell

Precious 2021-12-15 08:01:09

If there is a city between heaven and hell, it must be Rio.
Few cities have such a varied landscape like hers, with several unusually long and silvery-white beaches, pure blue waters, huge inner city lakes, towering Monte Cristo and the loaf mountain formed by a monolith. Beyond what I can see, mountains, seas and lakes intersect each other, changing sceneries with each other, and the landscape is drawn into the painting. With the beautiful scenery coupled with wild samba, too small a bikini, and delicious barbecue, she is heaven.
On the one hand, she is also hell. From the mountain top to the mighty slums at the bottom of the mountain, there are the most powerful bandits in the world, and there must be gun battles between police and robbers every two weeks. In addition to the Los Angeles aircraft in the United States, Rio is the second largest city with heavy armored vehicles. The police hid in airtight armor and exchanged fire with the gangsters from small holes. It is said that the helicopters of the Federal Police can be shot down.
You don’t have to watch movies or watch the news. In Rio, news is a movie. The first one was a model kissing a lover on the beach, the next one might be the tongue of flame flying from a slum, or a heavy machine gun, grenade, AK14 seized by the Federal Police, or a twelve-three who took drugs while holding a pistol or even a submachine gun. Year old teenager. They always remind you that this is not a Hong Kong or Hollywood movie, this is Brazil, this is a beautiful and cruel reality city.
I remember that there were two face paintings in the news that made me long-lasting shock. One was when the police and bandits were fighting, the reporter took pictures of a child hiding behind a building and striking back. It seemed that he was only eleven or twelve years old. After shooting a few shots at the joint police , Actually danced samba there, danced with his hands, and then shot here again. He is the most ignorant but happiest gangster, and fighting has only become a game.
In another scene of the same gunfight, many people subconsciously speeded up and quickly circumvented when they heard the gunfire. But that day, a middle-aged man on the news scene walked through the intersection calmly amidst the gunshots of the police and the gang. It seems that none of this has anything to do with him, or it seems to be completely out of life and death, or he has figured out that TMD, in the Rio slum, is more than anyone else's life. The King wants me to die three times, and I can't keep my life until five times.
This is Rio. In fact, Rio’s gangsters may also be the happiest robbers in the world. Their homes are in the middle of the mountains and facing the sea. The climate is pleasant. They sleep in every morning and go surfing and picking up girls on the beach at noon. Cooking in the afternoon, taking drugs and selling drugs in the evening, jumping in funk, looking for women, or committing crimes, and getting a bullet to end life without paying attention.
This is Rio, there is no movie, human life is movie.
I didn't talk about movies, because if you understand Rio, you understand the movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Emmitt 2022-04-24 07:01:08

    Prestige D9|Why compare it with ? The gap is still not small

  • Ethyl 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    I watched the qq video, and it is estimated that it was abridged, which caused the middle part to be unintelligible, but it is still worth watching.

Elite Squad quotes

  • Capitão Nascimento: [shouting, rubbing the student's face in the blood-soaked body of a dead drug dealer] Put your face here. Put your face here. You see this, you see this hole right here? Who killed this guy here? WHO KILLED THIS GUY HERE?

    Student: [stuttering in fear] I didn't see it...

    Capitão Nascimento: You didn't see OF COURSE YOU SAW IT. SAY IT! SAY IT!

    [he starts slapping the student in the face]

    Capitão Nascimento: SAY IT! Who killed this guy here? WHO DID IT?

    Student: [crying] I-it was one of you...

    Capitão Nascimento: [shouting] THE FUCK "One of you"! THE FUCK "One of you"!

    [slaps the student again]

    Capitão Nascimento: YOU killed this guy here.

    [slaps him again]

    Capitão Nascimento: You faggot. It's you who help fund this shit

    [slaps him again]

    Capitão Nascimento: . You fucking pothead! You shit! All of this shit happens because of you.

    Capitão Nascimento: [releasing and kicking the student] We come up here to clean this mess you make, you faggot!

  • Capitão Nascimento: 23, you're not wearing your strap?

    Trainee officer: N-no sir...

    Capitão Nascimento: We're this far into training and you forget to put your strap on. You mean your partner falls wounded, what you gonna do, throw your rifle on the ground?

    Trainee officer: No sir...

    Capitão Nascimento: [shouting] Gonna shove it up your ass?

    Trainee officer: No sir...

    Capitão Nascimento: So put the fucking strap!