didn't feel like a normal school day today...well. in the early recesses of the morning, we watched a movie called 'the city of God', ironically called 'cos of the fact tt it's a city in which God seemed to have abandoned (explained by Mr Li).
let's just analyse the way the movie is made. in terms of the way every event is linked, it was wonderful:D it was brilliant. gotta be one of the best cross-linked movies i've ever watched. everything was nicely linked together in a web. and the cinematography was quite good too...though too many repetitions of the same method made it predictable after a while:) i especially enjoyed the last part about why ned was shot and why otto was the one who shot him.
but what the movie was about was quite ...disturbing. i found the situation quite sad too...'cos it's like. circumstances have literally forced them into the pple they are... throughout the movie, you can see the humane side of all of them, the more vulnerable scenes in some of the scenes...like lil'Z and his close friend Benny, and how he felt when he wanted to ask a girl to dance...also, you can see that he truly loves Benny as a friend 'cos they grew up together, they did all the stuff together. pple who watched 'the city of God' will noe tt Lil'Z has a bloodthirst for murder.
something tt'll strike u hard is tt the kids are no longer innocent from a young age... very disturbing. they go around with guns to hold up gas trucks and shops, and there was a scene of a boy having to choose a child to shoot at. mr li said tt pple are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
btw, this movie is based on a real story. the narrator's still alive.
something else disturbed me. there was another scene in the show when Carrot's team decided to pray before they went out to shoot Lil'Z's team..and they were praying
'hallowed be our'
which i felt showed a double meaning. first was tt they were really praying tt their team would win over the other team and was quite apt considering how the movie plot was turning to...
the other was tt it struck me tt these pple are pple who know about God...but seriously, don't know God.
i dunno. but this movie made me wanna go help the pple down there.