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City of God is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. The story was adapted by Bráulio Mantovani from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins.However, the movie characters are not fictitious and the plot is based upon real events. It follows the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s. The end of the film shows the war between the drug dealer Li'l Zé and the criminal Knockout Ned. City of God was ranked third in Film4's "50 Films to See Before You Die", and No.6 on The Guardian's "The 25 Best Action Movies Ever".
上帝之城是一部上映于2002年的電影，它是一部巴西的犯罪劇情電影，導演費爾南多·梅里爾斯，卡迪亞·蘭德。這部電影由布勞利奧·曼托瓦尼改編，電影來源于1997年出版的同名小說，作者為保羅·林斯。但是，電影的角色并不是虛構的，影片中的情節是根據真實事件改編的。電影敘述的是上帝之城-里約熱內盧城鎮的犯罪，時間是20世紀60年代，以及20世紀80年代初期。影片的結尾展示的是運毒販子Li'l Zé與犯人Knockout Ned之間的戰爭。上帝之城在“五十部死前必看電影”中排名第三，在“二十五部最佳動作電影”中排名第六位。
The movie's tagline is: "If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you", (a Portuguese proverb similar to the English "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"). It describes the hopelessness of being involved in criminal activity in Rio's favelas. Most of the cast were from real-life favelas, including the real-life City of God itself. About a hundred children were hand-picked and placed into an "actors' workshop" for several months. Their training focused on simulating authentic street-war scenes, such as a hold-up, a scuffle, a shoot-out, etc. After filming, it was too dangerous for the young actors to return to their old lives in the favelas and so help groups were set up for them to build lives elsewhere.
電影的標語是：“如果你奔跑，野獸就會將你制服；如果你原地不動，它反而會吃了你”，（這是一個葡萄牙語諺語，與英文的“進退兩難”相似）。電影描述了在里約貧民窟犯罪的無望感。電影中絕大部分的演員都生活在貧民窟中，包括上帝之城這座真實的城市。他們精心挑選了大約一百名兒童，演員在工作間中生活了數月的時間。他們的訓練集中在呈現出真實的街戰場景，例如：搶劫、打斗、槍戰等。拍攝結束后，讓年輕演員回到真實的貧民窟中是非常危險的，所以，他們建立了一些幫助團隊，幫助演員在其它地方重新生活。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
