Key scenes Flashcards
Opening
hand held, panning, contrasts between yellow and blue (high angle looking down on action) low key lighting with the trapped nature within narrow alley ways. Freeze frame of Neto shooting
2.
freeze frame of BOPE logo and Nasicmento holding a gun - introduces the audience
Panning of law students
show similarities in race (white middle class)
Archaic footage of POPE
god like position
High angle birds eye view of favela
extreme contrasts between wealth and poverty
Law students group meeting
hand held, panning of the students smoking drugs, whilst Matias talks through his work
Matias in the favela
Low angle shot of male with a gun, yellow tint, moral ambiguity with low key lighting, non diegetic suspense music suggesting Matia’s vulnerability and is out of his depth
Brutality of Nascimento
mid shot, over the shoulder shot of him yelling and slapping a teenage boy concerned with the drug business
Neto trying get parts
conflict with yelling, beeping cars
Nascimento rock climbing
Increasing non diegetic sound whilst he holds tight to the rock and his teeth start chattering - mental turmoil
Representations of therapy
interruptions - not interested in listening to nasicmento - panning of camera
Nascimento’s mental turmoil
flash backs of him torturing, the mother pleading and non diegetic music of his sons heart beat on an ultra sound
BOPE training camp
increasingly torturous scenarios to ‘eliminate the weak and punish the corrupt’
Neto is shot
hand held, mid shot chaotic
Nascimento abusive to wife
looking down on her position, yelling, mid shot
