Elite Squad 2 Flashcards
Directed and co-scripted by José _________, Elite Squad is a now fairly familiar sort of report on the war zone that is Rio de Janeiro.
Padilha
The visual style is harsh - blindingly bright by day, the dark nights lit by naked bulbs and gunfire, the _________ camera running along with police and gangsters through alleyways and up steep streets.
Handheld
The cops are underpaid and ________, the arrogant, remorseless gangs protect their turf and are left to fight it out among themselves.
Corrupt
The authorities are indifferent to the plight of the ______; the middle and upper classes turn their backs on the city’s problems.
Poor
Only the Elite Squad are beyond corruption but to maintain this position they must embrace ________ rituals, turn training sessions into sadistic ordeals and adopt ruthless policies that mirror the behaviour of their worst opponents.
Fascistic
The film’s plot turns on which of _____ ambitious young lieutenants of very different temperaments will be promoted to succeed a seasoned captain who’s packing it in, a burnt-out case in his mid-thirties.
Two
The retiring veteran provides an exhausting non-stop _____-______ narration, and we have little doubt which man he’ll choose, provided of course that both are alive at the end.
Voice-over
Elite Squad depicts the life of the film narrator Roberto Nascimento, the captain of an elite squad in the police of Rio de Janeiro, who is awaiting for a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and is seeking a replacement so he could spend more time with his _____ and his upcoming son.
Wife
As he goes through this situation, he plunges into an inner struggle after he chooses _____ to be his successor and the latter proves to be the wrong choice as he is too euphoric to command the squad.
Neto
Later on, Neto is assassinated by drug dealers, and Nascimento explores his death to turn André ______ - Neto’s best friend - into his replacement.
Matias
At some point, Nascimento becomes too stressed about his work and becomes __________ even at home, repelling his pregnant wife away from him.
Aggressive
We learn by analyzing his life that he became a violent man in his personal life primarily due to his actions as a member of BOPE, a police division that is shown as extremely violent to the point of using ______ as a means of obtaining information.
Torture
The middle-class students who work at the NGO that supports the poor people from the ________ are presented as leftists and drug consumers/distributers, funding the same drug selling system that they criticize.
Favela
Synthesizing, we could say that the plot is about a man’s inner struggle to reconcile his work and his family, but it’s also about social issues such as the police abuses - whether it’s in the the form of violence or corruption - and the _____ dealing system.
Drug
The greatest accomplishment of Elite Squad is revealing the philosophy of __________ law and order to be deeply naive and ineffective, but does not ignore how seductive it can be.
Conservative
