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News of A Private War
Brazil/1999/57mins/English-sub
koleksi Farishad Latjuba
Directed by Joao Moreira
Salles + Katia Lund
Starring Helio Cruz, Carlos "Gordo" Gregorio
Produced by Raquel Zangrandi (Brazil)
Screenplay (in Portuguese) by Joao Moreira Salles & Katia Lund
Photography (Color) by Walter Carvalho
Edited by Flavio Nunes
Music by Antonio Pinto
Film dokumenter tentang peperangan yang tiada hentinya antara pasukan
kepolisian kota Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, dan komplotan-komplotan pengedar
narkoba.
A look at the ongoing battle between Rio de
Janeiro's police department and drug dealers.
City of God
Brazil-France-USA/2002/130mins/English-sub
koleksi Farishad Latjuba
Cast - Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele,
Seu Jorge, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Gera Camilo
Director - Fernando Meirelles + Katia Lund
Screenwriter - Fernando Meirelles + Braulio Mantovani
Source Writer - Paulo Lins
Producer - Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Producer - Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Director of Photography - Cesar Charlone
Tokoh utama dalam film ini bukan manusia
melainkan sebuah tempat. Cidade de Deus adalah sebuah proyek perumahan
untuk kaum miskin pada tahun 1960an. Pada tahun 1980an tempat ini
menjadi salah satu tempat yang paling berbahaya di kota Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Untuk dapat bercerita tentang tempat ini, film City of God (Cidade
de Deus) bercerita melalui serangkaian karakter. Semuanya dilihat dari
mata naratornya, Buscape, seorang anak kulit hitam yang terlalu lemah
fisik dan mentalnya untuk berani menjadi jagoan jalanan. Ia resah ada di
pekerjaan yang kecil gajinya. Ia tumbuh di lingkungan yang amat penuh
kekerasan. Pendeknya, harapan hidupnya suram. Namun ia menemukan bahwa
dirinya bisa melihat realita hidup dari mata beda, yakni dengan mata
seorang seniman. Akhirnya ia menjadi seorang fotografer. Inilah cara ia
membebaskan diri. Buscape bukan protagonis film ini. Dia bukan tokoh
yang mengalirkan cerita. Dia bukan tokoh yang menentukan adegan-adegan
utama film ini. Yang pasti, hidupnya tidak bisa dilepaskan dari segala
yang terjadi di dalam film. Dan dari sudut pandang dialah kita diajak
memahami sisi kemanusian dari suatu dunia yang seakan ditakdirkan untuk
selamanya dikecamuk kekerasan.
The main character in Cidade de Deus is not a
person. It is a place. Cidade de Deus is a poor housing project started
in the 60's that became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de
Janeiro by the beginning of the 80's. In order to tell the story of the
place the film tells us the stories of many characters. But all is seen
through the eyes of the narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black kid too frail
and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with na
underpaid job. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are
all against him. But he discovers he can see the reality with a
different eye: the eye of an artist. Eventually he becomes a
professional photographer. That is his redemption. Buscapé is not the
real protagonist of the film. He is not the one who
makes the story moves on. He is not the one who makes the decisions that
will determine the main chain of events. Nevertheless, not only his life
is attached to what happens in the story but it is also through his
perspective of life that we understand the humanity of a world
apparently condemned to endless violence.
(source >>
cidadededeus.globo.com) |
