Well I didn t, the two of them financed the dealers, they talked bad about the police, they were friends of the dealers, they corrupted the favela help programm, they were what Nascimento called, playboy maconheiros that financed the dealers, therefore the police had to clean all the crap they did, and still called the police Violent.
I think they got owned.
Anyone agree?
Nope, no sorries :p Good riddance.
sharethey were spoiled little bastards but come on... the woman was shot in front of him moments before he was burned to death.
that's about as cruel as it gets. i felt for them.
I felt for them. Jesus, that was a horrible death. Thats the stuff you wish for Hitler to get not some students who happen to like pot.
sharePeople who feel that torture and murder is something anybody deserves should have their own Neurnberg trial... and be put to death. Especially in a case as this when, where there is no good reason to take revenge on them in the first place; come on 'they talked bad about the police'? wtf, who doesn't? Who wouldn't talk bad of corrupt policemen who kill at will. And as far as smoking marijuana being a crime: that is what governments and the maffia would like you to think. Are you that naïve?
shareWell, cocoonofcomfort, I dont know where you live but here in Brazil to have marijuana can be a crime, it doesnt matter what I or you or anyone else thinks about it, its the law, its a crime.
I dont agree to torture and executions, but they were guilty and as depicted they were dumb at least or they didnt care if they were giving money to drug dealers what means more violence, guns and traffic's money.
As someone said, I felt more sorry about Baiano, and there thousands of him here, poor kids without any chance since their birth... and Im not so sorry about spoiled dumb selfish rich kids that go to the favelas saying they ll help the poor just to get an easy time to find their recreational drugs.
But don't you think it is retarded that something innocent such as marijuana is illegal? And yes... I do live in Amsterdam. Why would smoking a plant that makes you feel a bit funny have anything to do with people being murdered and tortured? It's about as retarded as the medieval witchhunts.
I thought Tropa de Elite was a terrific film, but after seeing it my sympathy for Brazil as a country had not improved. In fact: I'd stay away from it as far as possible. I do know that there are very different parts... but still, Brazil is listed in the top three of most dangerous countries on earth for a reason. I'd rather travel to Chile or Surinam if I want to see some of South America.
Sorry for taking the luster off your thunder, but those kids weren't just smoking pot.
They were dealing drugs. Including cocaine.
I thought we were watching the same movie, but obviously not. The one you saw was showing innocent pot-smoking kids.
I am not saying they deserved to die because they smoke pot. they dealed drugs, helped the dealers and even say the police were violente when it was ppl like them that help finance the dealers.
bope comes to clean the s?%t they make.
I don't get it, why did the criminals kill those two students? Wasn't it because they were "friends" with a cop?
shareGood point. Of corse, noone should die in such violent way, but as the movie says, it's a war, and they got killed by the people they were financing, so it's a form of poetic justice.
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I didn't feel sorry for them.. they should have known they were playing with fire.. ignorance was not a excuse..
I didn't really feel sorry for anyone.. if anything.. it's a shame that human stupidity continues to repeat itself on lame ideas.. like drugs are illegal..
Imagine that the version of rio portrayed in the movie wouldn't exist if people didn't force others to mind there philosophical or supposedly moral laws.. these same ideas and stupidity is in place in the U.S. just likely a little less brutal..
Some Members have posted ignorant and arrogant comments here. I'm not here to critisize or disrespect, but the Members who typed this are no different then those who gloryfy murders of innocent people like in situations in 9/11, 7/7, Iraq War, Gaza, Afganstan, Pakistan, Lebanon etc.
I felt for these Kids I was proper angry at those Coward Gangsters. These studenta are teenagers 18-21 or more, who might of not seen how life is in other countries. They didnt think that those same Gangsters who they probably praise will one day end up killing them. They hate the Police, but who wouldn't hate corrupt Policemen? Plus most of the Police that arent corrupt take no action against the corrupt ones so they can live an easy life (not get sacked, not get into fights, not get killed). But isn't that what joining the Police is meant to be? to make peoples lives better, to protect the people even if it means dying in duty?
So most Police Officers take some blame on why these kids hate the Police. But the Kids were defintely over exagerating and fabricating things about the Cops but their kids, Media Owners do that all the time against Muslims and people of other minorities so why dont you critisize them?
Plus these Kids might of been brainwashed by the Gangsters. Which wont be hard to do since most Cops dont take action against the Corupt cops. Plus what is the President of that country doing to improve the situation?
And since the way BOP what ever that Brazillian Swat team is called, since they abuse Human rights, torture people including innocent people and kids, disrespect people openly in public and dont get prosecuted. The Civillians most of them will end up hating them. Plus the BOP train their Men like Aninmals in a Jungle. If that place i Brazil is still like this then why dont USA, who claimed they started a war on terror, interfiere to make that city safe and better?
Brazils not the only place where there is coruption and terrorism there are other places too, but yet USA dont get involved this just shows the US government dont care about people, they only care about oppressing Muslims.
Of course you would feel sympathy, but I thought they got what was coming for them. What they were doing was stupid. I am all for protecting human rights but they give the real activists a really, really bad name with their blind and ignorant ways.
And to caster troy from the uk, I don't think the kids were brainwashed. Perhaps lied to, but I doubt the gangsters would bother to try and brainwash them. I think they were supposed to be portrayed as upper class liberals (I so hate that word, but I'm afraid it does fit the bill here). They were clueless about a lot of things and only saw what they wanted to see. There are a staggeringly high amount of these people in our society today, most of them belong to groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch where they hide behind banners and slogans and do stupid things. I mean it's possible that there are some people who get corrupted or brainwashed in real life, but I don't think those two kids were, imo, and I don't think the director tried to portray it that way.