It shouldn’t be that way, no?
\nSorry, that I changed my program, but this message this morning just made me wonder and I had to make a post on this.<\/p>\n
‘Tropa de Elite’ was released in Sept.\/Oct. 2007 at the ‘Festival do Rio’ where it initiated the discussion on piracy. Pavement vendors had sold DVDs before the official release. Them, too, wanted to get some money out of it. And the hard-sell of this film – which is based novel effects and violence – worked out well too much so these vendors at that managed to sell old violent films as ‘Tropa de Elite II to V’.<\/p>\n
In Rio people loved the film as a kid of ‘Cidade de Deus\/City of God’ or hated it because of talking of these taboo issues. This was the best publicity for the film.
\nI’ve seen kids on the street playing, reciting\/quoting dialogues from the film, rehearsing scenes of tropa de elite. Didn’t the message hit us bad enough? Haven’t we still not understood the danger of these kind of films?<\/p>\n
These films are romanticizing the drug problem in megacities. Violence seems to be the export hit from Rio. I don’t believe in the fact that we need to see that violence in the movies to come to know the problem. This is pure gaping at inhuman conditions and of course making huge profit out of it.<\/p>\n
We already know that: “People of a Rio slum fear that the police killing of a drug boss will bring more grief” “Interrogation is quite easy to do: Lines sung by BOPE – Portuguese initials of the Special Operations Battalion of Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police – during their daily duties.” “Between December of 1987 and November 2001, violent death claimed 3,937 Cariocas, or local residents, under 18 years of age. By comparison, during the same period, 467 minors died in and around the West Bank between Jordan and Israel, which is considered a war zone by the international community.” So, is it really true that the Berlin International Film Festival, a German cultural<\/strong> institution, awards it with a Golden Bear? Some background information: The trailer in Portuguese:
\n“… in the first nine months of 2006 in Rio de Janeiro police killed 807 people …” and
\n” … The poorest communities bore the brunt of the tens of thousands of gun-related deaths.”
\namnesty international<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nguardian<\/a> from uk.<\/p>\n
\nBeat the slum-dweller; whip him black and blue.
\nInterrogation is quite easy to end:
\nBeat the scum criminal; whip him till he’s dead.<\/p>\n
\nRede Social<\/a><\/p>\n
\n‘Drug Lords and Young Soldiers<\/a>‘ by Sam Logan
\nAnd this is just a quick research on English sites.<\/p>\n
\nI still haven’t found anything on their motivation to award this film, but I found it very hard to convince me that this film needs it and that we need this film.<\/p>\n
\n‘Tropa de Elite<\/a>‘ and ‘BOPE<\/a>‘ on wikipedia. Have a look at the BOPE’s logo. I don’t believe that a good way to prevent violence.<\/p>\n
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