"A picture can change my life, but in the City of God, if you run away, you will be caught, and if you stay, you will be caught. It's been like that since I was a kid! ”

The teenager standing in the middle of the street is at a loss, and then the picture begins to spin, giving a panoramic view of the suffocating confrontation of the entire street. But after turning around again, the picture came to the 60s when the yellow sand was full of yellow sand, and the teenager also became a child, standing in front of a goal-like shelf, with the same blank face.

The kid is the goalkeeper and is defending the penalty. The opposing player was in one fell swoop, and the child wolf bèi pounced in the opposite direction so badly that he almost fell.

In an instant, the suffocating street battle evolved into a slum playground for children playing football, and the plot connection with such a huge gap was stunned without any sense of disobedience, which is really amazing.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Ah Pao." An older kid snatched the soccer ball from the dazed kid, "His name is Ah Mao, and the story of the City of God has to start with him." "The camera leaves the protagonist of the narration and shifts to Ah Mao, which is another interesting phenomenon - the camera does not follow the male protagonist according to common sense." But if you want to talk about him, you have to mention the young three heroes.

Ah Mao was surrounded by a group of children, showing off his juggling skills, two older children of the same age as Ah Mao swaggered over, which made Ah Mao kick the football into the sky, and then pulled out a pistol from the waistband of his pants, aimed directly at the football, "bang" a gunshot, and the football was penetrated.

The camera freezes, and a line of subtitles appears next to the hole-in-the-hole football, the story of "Young Three Heroes".

"The Young Three Heroes are famous in the City of God, Ah Mao, Ah Jia and Ah Dumb. Xiaodouzi and Mao's younger brother Benny are followers, and I don't dare to follow my brother Dumb. A Pao's narration introduction took the audience into the story of the three young heroes.

Three teenagers, with two children and three pistols in their hands, not only hijacked a gas car, but also caused half of the slum to rush out and grab the gas in the car; And also robbed the driver of all the cash, Xiaodouzi beat the driver even more violently, the cheerful laughter unscrupulously spread under the sky, even if the police/inspector arrived in time, they were helpless.

Ethan feels that the film is getting more and more interesting, although the director adopts the form of "pulp fiction" to explain the story, and the series of narrations adds a sense of drama to the film, but the construction and editing of the shots are full of deep meaning. Ethan could vaguely feel that ...... The contradictions and oppressions of the infinite expanse of the world but being trapped in a cage with nowhere to escape, especially in the expressions of the children who take it for granted, take it for granted, and rejoice, the darkness of crime and violence becomes insignificant and intriguing.

Ethan subconsciously glanced at Joel, and then saw Joel supporting his chin with his right hand, and his eyebrows were slightly closer to the middle, revealing a thoughtful look. Ethan's gaze didn't linger, and then he retracted and re-engaged in the movie, but a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I used to think that the Young Three were the most ruthless characters in Rio de Janeiro, but they were only half-tones. My brother was the same. "We have come to the city of God in search of heaven, many families have been destroyed by floods, and there are also the most common arson cases in the slums, and the high-ranking government officials are not joking, homeless? Go to the City of God! There is no electricity, no paved roads, no buses, but the powerful don't care whether we live or die, and Rio de Janeiro has long forgotten about us. ”

The young Sanxia felt that the harvest of grabbing the gas car was still too little, so under the construction of Xiaodouzi, he decided to go to the motel to rob the couples who were opening the house.

The young three heroes discussed, only robbed and did not kill, and then ignored Xiaodouzi's strong protest and let Xiaodouzi stay at the door of the hotel to control the wind, in order to appease Xiaodouzi, Ah Mao gave Xiaodouzi a pistol, and let Xiaodouzi shoot to warn when he saw the police/inspection. The robbery went so smoothly that they managed to accomplish the most noteworthy stroke of their hooligan career without even harming a single traveler.

Then they heard the sound of Xiaodouzi's warning gunshots and fled in a hurry. But when he returned to the door, he couldn't find Xiaodouzi anymore, and the gunshots from the motel made the young three heroes have no time to continue searching, so they can only flee in the desert.

However, when the police/inspector arrived at the scene, they found that all the staff and passengers of the hotel had lost their lives, which made the young three heroes become the suspect of the police/inspector's centralized pursuit.

In this sleepless chaos, the little bean who stayed at the door to guard the wind was nowhere to be found, and the fate of the young three heroes also went in a completely different direction.

Ah Jia saw through life and death and decided to return to the church and stop being a hooligan. Ironically, Ah Jia was calmly and heroically righteous in the face of the pursuit of the police/inspector, but the police/inspector directly skipped him and caught up with another figure who fled with a weak heart. In the end, the person who escaped was directly killed, but in fact he was just an honest worker, who ran away out of a natural fear of the police, but was mistakenly killed by the police/inspector and then accused of being a robber and ended his life. Ah Jia threw himself into the arms of God.

Dumb returned home, was detained by his father at home, and has never lived a life as a hooligan. In the life of helping his father sell fish, Dumb fell in love with the wife of a man nicknamed Shorty and had an affair with her, but was caught and raped by Shorty in bed and had to flee in a hurry. In the process of escaping, Dumb accidentally finds Little Douzi - they all think that Little Douzi was killed by the police, and Little Douzi and Benny are together, and they have taken a lot of money. Dumb snatched Little Bean's money and disappeared from then on.

While evading the police, Mao falls in love with a girl, Benise. Bennice always hoped that Ah Mao could find a job and live an ordinary life, but Ah Mao was unwilling until something happened to the short man. After the dwarf found out about the adultery between Dumb and his wife, he beat his wife to death with a shovel in a fit of rage, and then the East Window incident caused a sensation, and the entire City of God was surrounded by police/inspectors and reporters, and in a panic, Mao decided to leave with Benice.

Mao and Benise randomly stop a car, point a pistol to the driver's head, and ask him to take them out of the City of God. But there was a problem with the car, and Mao had to go down and push the car forward so that the driver could start the engine. The dwarf who was arrested by the police/inspector saw this scene, was angry, and told the police/inspector the true identity of Ah Mao. In the process of chasing Ah Mao, the police/detective hit Ah Mao in the abdomen.

In order to distract the police/detectives so that Benice could leave along the way, Mao began to flee, escorting Benice all the way away. But in the end, Ah Mao was shot all over his body and died tragically on the street.

The story of the three young heroes ended like this.

Joel fell into deep thought, he was surprised not only by the old way of Reims, but also by the fact that the story of the three parallel lines was handled without panic, the documentary-style narration and the drama-style narrative were perfectly combined, the details were appropriate, the story was strong, the style was distinct, and most importantly, the rhythm was properly controlled, and the progress process was fast but without losing the sparkle; He was even more surprised by Lance's clear thinking and clear intentions, and the detailed descriptions of the narrative up to the point to the end, but the characters and the story were polished.

The most memorable scene is that Dumb fled from the dwarf's house after being caught/raped, but he was covered with red fruits, and only took a shirt to cover the important parts, so Dumb asked Dumb to take off his shorts for him. As a result, Ah Pao didn't realize the severity of the matter at all, and laughed at Dumb. But in the end, Ah Pao still took off his shorts to Ah Pao.

This was the last time Ah Pao saw Dumb.

The innocence of the youth, the brotherly friendship, and the endless yellow sand in the camera make the story shine with a touch of innocence in the midst of panicked cruelty and ferocity. When I saw this scene, there was even a light laugh in the movie theater, and that kind of comfort was almost impossible for works of the same genre.

In the last scene, Ah Mao staggered and ran down the wide street, the police/inspector chased while shooting, and the residents on the side of the road stood curiously and calmly onlookers, and the sad and bleak music seemed even more ironic, which actually produced a kind of Shakespearean tragedy of grandeur and poetry.

Then Joel was attracted all the attention by the movie, when the story entered the seventies, Ah Cannon has become a little adult, because of the frequent news events when he was a child and became interested in photography, with the most basic and simple equipment began to embark on the road of photography, and Ah Pao's first photographic object is his sweetheart - Angelica, he hopes to dedicate his virgin/male body to Angelica.

But alas, Angelica has a boyfriend, Tiago.

Despite this, Ah Pao is willing to work hard to get close to Angelica. Angelica smokes big/hemp, while Tiago is stricter and smokes white/powder. In order to curry favor with Angelica, Ah Pao took the initiative to say that he could go to Black Boy to get high-quality big/hemp at a low price. When they arrived at the apartment where Black Box sold big/hemp, they were visited by uninvited guests, and Little Beanzi and Benny came to the door with a large group of younger brothers, and they were menacing.

So, this brings us to the second story, "The Story of This Apartment".

The whole story is very simple, in the form of a montage, in just less than four minutes, the story of the gradual evolution of this apartment into a fixed sales point of Da/Ma is told, witnessing the process of the red hair's growth from a little brother all the way to a monopoly drug/lord, and then handed over this apartment to his trusted subordinate Black Boy. However, Xiaodouzi came to the door at this time to seize the territory.

At this time, Xiaodouzi is no longer Xiaodouzi, but Xiaobawang, which has entered the third story, "The Story of Xiaobawang"!

A cannon's narration takes the audience back to the night of the motel robbery in the sixties, revealing all the truth. Xiao Douzi, who has always aspired to be the leader of the City of God, betrayed the three young heroes, including his brother Ah Mao, and ruthlessly created a bloody case of more than a dozen lives in the motel! He is the real murderer!

"Oh!" The whole movie theater let out exclamations, even though the cheerful samba music still has a dramatic effect, but the cruelty behind the extreme contradiction slowly seeps out, watching the eight-year-old Little Douzi play a game and kill the entire hotel owner, and even laugh triumphantly, the cruelty is chilling.